gRPC

Definition	google Remote Procedure Call
Category	Computing » Programming & Development
Country/Region	Worldwide
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What does gRPC mean?

gRPC Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), originally known as Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), is an open-source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework initially developed by Google.
gRPC uses a binary protocol called Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for data exchange, which is more efficient than traditional text-based protocols like JSON or XML. This leads to faster communication and lower resource usage.
gRPC is commonly used in microservices architectures and distributed systems for building fast and efficient communication between services.

Note:
While the lowercase g originally stood for google as it was developed internally there, since becoming open-source in 2015.