Re: RSocket Followup (post TOC meeting)


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Adding Tim Bozarth from Netflix, who's had some practical experience working with both gRPC and RSocket. Full thread here: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/topic/rsocket_followup_post_toc/24221841

+1 to a public feature comparison table. 
In such a table, it will be good to figure out how to do justice to deliberate design choices and the tradeoffs. For example, broker vs no-broker, or choosing to base on top of http/2. Projects have valid reasons to go one way or another, and those considerations are very beneficial for the user to understand.


FYI : I saw a few minor misconceptions for gRPC and I have called out a few that stood out.:
- binary - must be wrapped in protobuf. This is not necessary, though offers a convenience. There are other formats  (eg: flatbuffers) that support gRPC service generation.
- max payload size is confiugrable
- full duplex -- not sure what this means. gRPC supports bi directional streams.
- IPC  is not protobuf only. 



On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:45 PM <colin@...> wrote:
Reading through the responses, imo this speaks to a need for a public project feature comparison I mentioned elsewhere in this thread (https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/2192).

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