Performance Benchmarking: gRPC+Protobuf vs. HTTP+JSON

While human-readable JSON over HTTP remains a popular choice for service communication due to its simplicity and familiarity, in Microservices architectures gRPC is emerging as a popular choice for communication. It is mainly because in the case of internal services, the structured formats, such as Protocol Buffers, are a better choice than JSON for encoding data. So we wanted to experiment with p

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「HTTP/2 (H2C) is slower than gRPC, and gRPC is slower than HTTP/1!」