grpc
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gRPC vs REST: Smaller Bytes Are the Least Interesting Difference
Protobuf is smaller than JSON until you gzip it. The real gRPC trade-offs are contracts, deadlines, status codes in trailers, and load balancing on Kubernetes.
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Timeouts and Deadline Propagation: The Budget Nobody Sets
A timeout is a local guess; a deadline is a shared fact. The difference decides whether your system sheds doomed work or grinds on abandoned requests.