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Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition
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Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

by Sourabh Sharma
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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REST versus gRPC

Both gRPC and REST leverage the HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 2 specifications. gRPC also offers full-duplex streaming communication. REST can pass payloads using query and path parameters, and also from the request body. This means that requested data comes from different sources and parsing of data from various sources (query, path, and request body) adds latency and complexity. gRPC performs better than REST as it uses the static paths.

REST call errors depend on HTTP status codes, whereas gRPC has formalized the set of errors to make it suitable for APIs.

REST APIs are purely based on HTTP, which allows you to implement an API in different ways. You can delete a resource using any HTTP method instead of just using the DELETE method. ...

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