An RPC protocol developed by Google.
- HTTP/2 was created by Google to be used by gRPC
Request and Response Multiplexing
- Traditionally, it’s not possible to send multiple requests or retrieve multiple responses together in a single connection; we require a new connection for each request/response
- R/R multiplexing is possible in HTTP/2 due to a new layer called binary framing, which encapsulates and encodes the data for further security
- Each HTTP request/response gets broken down into frames
- Payloads from multiple requests can thus be packed under the same header, identifying it as one request
Sources
[1] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-grpc-protocol-buffers-stream-architecture/