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I keep reading about microservices communication protocols and I am totally lost on whether REST or gRPC is better for our new e-commerce platform running on cloud hosting.

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I keep reading about microservices communication protocols and I am totally lost on whether REST or gRPC is better for our new e-commerce platform running on cloud hosting.
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REST vs gRPC official documentation HTTP/2 Protocol Buffers browser support microservices architecture Google ↗
  1. Using gRPC  |  Cloud Run  |  Google Cloud Documentation · docs.cloud.google.com
  2. gRPC - .NET · learn.microsoft.com

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