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What is gRPC?

gRPC (gRPC Remote Procedure Calls) is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It is often used to connect services in a microservices architecture. gRPC uses Protocol Buffers as its Interface Definition Language (IDL) and for message serialization, which makes it language-neutral and highly efficient.

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What other technologies are related to gRPC?

gRPC Competitor Technologies

GraphQL

GraphQL is an alternative API query language and runtime that competes with gRPC for building APIs.

mentioned alongside gRPC in 6% (8.6k) of relevant job posts

REST

REST is a widely used architectural style for building APIs and is a direct competitor to gRPC.

mentioned alongside gRPC in 4% (12.5k) of relevant job posts

Thrift

Apache Thrift is a RPC framework similar to gRPC, and thus a competitor.

mentioned alongside gRPC in 40% (671) of relevant job posts

WebSockets

WebSockets provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection, similar to gRPC's capabilities, which makes it a competitor.

mentioned alongside gRPC in 10% (1.6k) of relevant job posts

NETCONF

NETCONF is a network configuration protocol that offers similar network management capabilities compared to gNMI which uses gRPC. Therefore it is a competitor in the context of network management.

mentioned alongside gRPC in 15% (597) of relevant job posts