API Design · Junior · Question 50 of 75

What is gRPC typically used for?

✓Correct answer: Fast, typed service-to-service calls using Protocol Buffers over HTTP/2
2Rendering web pages
3Querying SQL databases

Explanation

It's popular inside microservice systems. Browsers need gRPC-Web or a proxy to use it.

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