Hacker News with Generative AI: gRPC

Easily turn any gRPC service into an MCP server (redpanda.com)
Modern SaaS companies spend a lot of time designing, building, and maintaining APIs across SDKs, CLI tools, and now, LLM integrations. With the rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI-native interfaces like Claude or Cursor are becoming real API consumers.

gRPC, MCP, API, AI, SaaS

10 points by birdayz 24 days ago | 1 comments

Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020) (cloud.google.com)
As most software developers no doubt know, there are two primary models for API design: RPC and REST. Regardless of model, most modern APIs are implemented by mapping them in one way or another to the same HTTP protocol. It has also become common for RPC API designs to adopt one or two ideas from HTTP while staying within the RPC model, which has increased the range of choices that an API designer faces.

API Design, REST, RPC, gRPC, OpenAPI

323 points by hui-zheng 121 days ago | 276 comments

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021) (mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC.

Software, Inter-Process Communication, gRPC, API, Serialization

121 points by zardinality 184 days ago | 93 comments

gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It? (kostyay.com)

gRPC, Software, Networking, Microservices

69 points by sudorandom 262 days ago | 33 comments

gRPC: The Ugly Parts (kmcd.dev)

gRPC, Software, Programming, Performance

111 points by ingve 262 days ago | 84 comments

gRPC: The Bad Parts (kmcd.dev)

gRPC, Software, Performance, Development

228 points by temp_praneshp 331 days ago | 222 comments

Connect joins the CNCF: gRPC you can bet your business on (buf.build)

gRPC, Business, Software, Open Source

18 points by akshayshah 353 days ago | 7 comments