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This is great! TL;DR: instead of building JSON or GraphQL API now you can easily expose your gRPC service to the outside world!

We use gRPC in my company. We're happy but some things were not easy or straightforward to implement. With this update nginx makes load balancing and authentication easier to implement.

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I was actually just about to say that. There seems to be fair bit of overlap in graphql and grpc from the Codegen and Schema POV. Graphql is more intended to be a data query language and grpc more generic function calls.

But they’re both essentially solving the dev problem of having ‘typed contracts’ right?

Very interesting evolution! SOAP to REST to graphql more popular on the ‘frontend’ side and grpc on the ‘backend’ side.

from my understanding this only works over h2 or h2c

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