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dsymonds on Feb 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC...

gRPC is based on the internal Stubby RPC system, and that works over HTTP/1.1 based on CONNECT and switching to raw TCP. That works well enough, but the HTTP/2 goodies are too good to pass up.

ejona86 on Feb 27, 2015 | [–]

And using HTTP/2 directly allows using HTTP/2-based load balancers and reverse proxies, which is a huge bonus.

cespare on Feb 27, 2015 | [–]

Great context, thanks. I'm excited to start using it :)

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