I like the idea of grpc because I wanted the contract but I tried it on a small service and I think I would avoid it in the future. Too many rough edges and features I didnt really need. I was using it in Rust and python mainly (maybe it is better in Go?) but it had a whole bunch of google stuff in there I didnt need.
- Configuring the python client with a json string that did not seem to have a documented schema
- Error types that were overly general in some ways and overly specific in other ways
- HAProxy couldn't easily health check the service
There were a few others that I cant remember because it was ~5 years ago. I liked the idea of the contract and protobuf seemed easy to write but had no need for client side dns load balancing and the like and was not working in GoLang.
- Configuring the python client with a json string that did not seem to have a documented schema
- Error types that were overly general in some ways and overly specific in other ways
- HAProxy couldn't easily health check the service
There were a few others that I cant remember because it was ~5 years ago. I liked the idea of the contract and protobuf seemed easy to write but had no need for client side dns load balancing and the like and was not working in GoLang.