Mastering gRPC in Go: Efficient Service Communication with Protocol Buffers
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Introduction # In the modern landscape of distributed systems, the way your services talk to each other defines your architecture’s throughput and reliability. For years, REST (over HTTP/1.1 with JSON) was the default standard. It’s human-readable, ubiquitous, and easy to debug. However, as we navigate through the high-concurrency demands of 2025, the overhead of text-based protocols has become a tangible bottleneck for internal microservice communication.