Microservices: How to choose right API style that fits to your Solution Requirements gRPC over Restful
Hello Welcome to this post! An effective API design is vital in a Microservices architecture because all data exchange between services happens either through messages or API calls. REST style is probably the most known as it has become common among the Web API. But lately, the gRPC framework is becoming quite popular to build high performance systems. So, you might get these questions when involving in designing an API architecture. In this post , you would be able to find answers and to understand the capabilities of gRPC framework, features of Protobuf and HTTP/2 protocol and finally overview of common use cases of gRPC over REST API. so, let's keep reading further for technical insights. REST: a brief overview Before we start looking into details of the gRPC framework, let’s take a brief overview of RESTful services first. The standard REST methods built on HTTP 1.x. with well-defined status codes help in identifying cause of problems. Generated contracts, m...