Beginning gRPC with ASP.NET Core 6: Build Applications using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular, and Best Practices in .NET 6

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A. GirettiBeginning gRPC with ASP.NET Core 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8008-9_3

3. Understanding the gRPC Specification

Anthony Giretti¹  

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La Salle, QC, Canada

 

Before we jump into the power of gRPC and ASP.NET Core, it is essential that you learn the gRPC specification and how it works. This is crucial because gRPC is much different from other technologies that you may be accustomed to working with, such as web APIs and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) services. The gRPC specification is language-agnostic, which means that this specification not only is implemented with ASP.NET Core, but also can be integrated with other stacks like Java, PHP, ...