I mostly like the speed of grpc, which is 7 to 10 times faster than REST. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are not many resources for the GRPC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The binary protocol allows you to define apis that have a high amount of data load in a performant way. It is possible to integrate it with most of the modern lprogramming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It still doesn’t support dynamic proto definition parsing in languages different than c, and that’s a really useful feature. It can also be a bit hard to deeply understand because of it’s internal complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Incredibly nice and easy to implement in your services, and gives you nothing but benefits - from tooling, to network optimizations.

gRPC really shines where you have a polyglot backend, as you're freely able to distribute a spec for how these microservices are to interact together. And using the great tooling, you can generate a lot of the code for your desired language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the language-specific tooling has its downsides - but it's never too bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.