Why Use gRPC and Thrift for Remote Procedure Calls

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Usually, whenever somebody wants to start building an HTTP API for their website, they pretty much exclusively use REST as the go-to architectural style. They prefer REST to alternative approaches such as RPC and GraphQL.

REST works well for most cases, especially if you build a monolithic application that does not have complex within-application communication. The problems…