API Protocols Unpacked: A Decision Matrix for REST, GraphQL, & gRPC in High-Throughput Systems
Introduction & Industry Context The backbone of modern distributed systems, microservices, and client-server architectures is the Application Pr…
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Building a Leak-Safe gRPC Frame Decoder on Reactor Netty
This is the second article in my grpc-reactor series. The first article explains why I chose to build the runtime directly on Reactor Netty and wher…
Your gRPC stream is "healthy" and serving nothing: synthetic monitoring for server-side streams
By Daniil Romashov — SRE/DevOps engineer. The tool described here is open source: github.com/youngpabl0/grpc-streams-checker (Apache-2.0). Uptime ch…
Why Postman Struggles With Protobuf APIs
Subtitle: If your APIs speak protobuf and gRPC, a JSON-first client will fight you at every step. Most API clients were built for a world of REST an…
When to choose gRPC over REST and Other Alternatives?
Quick Decision Tree: Which to choose? Public APIs / external clients → REST (simple, widely compatible). Internal service-to-service (microservices)…
WebSocket Half-Open Connections and gRPC Gateway Discovery in Complex LAN WebRTC Systems
The target scenario is not consumer calling. It is closer to B2B institutional device fleets: many shared devices, long-running uptime, centralized…
I built a gRPC debugging proxy as my first serious Go project – here's what I learned
TL;DR: I built Loom , a transparent gRPC proxy that decodes traffic in real-time using Server Reflection. No .proto files needed. It gives you a bro…
Azure API Management - Deploy gRPC API on Azure API management using self hosted gateway
This is a complete guide with steps by step process to deploy the gRPC and how to use Azure API Management to import the gRPC API. It cover step‑by‑…
The First Brick on the Walled Garden — Rethinking e-Food Delivery as an Open Protocol
E-food delivery is a trillion-dollar market . And most of that trillion is not going to farmers, store owners, or the people who actually move food…