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High-performance open source RPC framework by Google supporting multiple languages with protobuf serialization.

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Free

Founded

2015

Team size

10,000+ employees

Headquarters

Mountain View, CA

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Protocol BuffersHTTP/2Load balancingTracing systemsHealth checking+1

About gRPC

gRPC is an open-source, high-performance remote-procedure-call framework originally developed at Google, using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers for efficient, strongly-typed service-to-service communication across languages. It supports streaming, load balancing, and code generation, and is a de facto standard for microservice and internal API communication. It is aimed at developers building distributed backend systems.

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