Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

RSocket versus gRPC

We may still wonder why we need a separate framework if there is a well-known framework called gRPC. The gRPC is described as follows:

"A high performance, open source, general-purpose RPC framework (https://github.com/grpc)"

This project was initially developed by Google and aimed to provide asynchronous messaging over HTTP/2. It uses Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as the Interface Description Language (IDL) and as its underlying message interchange format.

To learn more about Service Definition using IDL and Protobuf, please see the following link: https://grpc.io/docs/guides/concepts.html#service-definition

In general, gRPC offers an almost identical messaging semantic to a Reactive Streams one and provides the following ...