Re: peanut-gallery thoughts about GRPC
Louis Ryan <lryan@...>
Martin, Perhaps your understanding of GRPC is based on the name (I do bemoan this choice from time to time) rather than the feature set and intent. I would encourage you to read Specifically the parts about being message oriented not object or function oriented. GRPC is nothing like the solutions you mention for a wide variety of reasons, I see the comparison with CORBA a lot because we use an IDL with protobuf but that's missing the point. If by loose-coupling you mean the ability to dynamically compose systems based on metadata and linking across a diverse ecosystem of APIs AND you need to do this in a browser then I would agree GRPC is not for you (he K8S config API comes to mind). I would note however that there are relatively few APIs that fall into that category and none that are infrastructural, most APIs are use-case specific and their composition is done by application code with fore-knowledge of the use-case. Mobile application development overwhelmingly falls into this category. OpenAPI does a better job than JSON-LD and AtomPub in supporting this dynamic composition model but this is in no small part because it standardizes and IDL that can be processed by toolchains as opposed to AtomPub which expected runtimes to make magic happen. The OpenAPI approach is no different than GRPC+Protobuf other than the physical representation. I wouldn't advocate using GRPC when HTTP+JSON is a better fit for the use-case, far from it, but for many use-cases I do think it is a better tool. - Louis P.S Happy to get in the weeds over a beer the next time I see you
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Brian Grant <briangrant@...> wrote:
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