Summary

In this chapter, we learned the details of what gRPC is and what differentiates it from similar technologies. We also learned what makes gRPC a good fit for numerous applications and what languages can be used with gRPC.

The rest of the book focuses on how to actually use gRPC. As you might expect, we’ll start with the basics and then move into several more advanced topics for making the most of gRPC.

But first, we take a detour to talk about a technology that is imperative to know in order to use gRPC: Protocol Buffers.