--- title: A minimalist guide to gRPC | daily.dev description: Let’s take a look at gRPC and understand why It’s awesome and why and when we should use gRPC over REST Google has been using a lot of the underlying... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A minimalist guide to gRPC | daily.dev og:description: Let’s take a look at gRPC and understand why It’s awesome and why and when we should use gRPC over REST Google has been using a lot of the underlying... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Uwr8LiyDi.png og:image:alt: A minimalist guide to gRPC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A minimalist guide to gRPC **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 2 min read · 47 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Let’s take a look at gRPC and understand why It’s awesome and why and when we should use gRPC over REST Google has been using a lot of the underlying technologies and concepts in gRPC for a long… ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@codenamedx** · 2 upvotes > Casual read, easy to digest to pick up some knowledge **@amghnass** · 1 upvotes > This article make me want to know more about this technology 🤔. **@brunoalencar** · 0 upvotes > Really good article --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#grpc](https://daily.dev/tags/grpc), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A minimalist guide to gRPC","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi"},"datePublished":"2021-09-19T17:59:07.818Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:51:52.748Z","description":"Let’s take a look at gRPC and understand why It’s awesome and why and when we should use gRPC over REST Google has been using a lot of the underlying...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5b31a38dc3a6b81335aede2bba00cba2","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5b31a38dc3a6b81335aede2bba00cba2","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ITNEXT","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ITNEXT","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/itnext2","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/itnext"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":47},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"general-programming,google,grpc,rest-api","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ITNEXT","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/itnext"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A minimalist guide to gRPC"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-minimalist-guide-to-grpc-uwr8liydi","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Casual read, easy to digest to pick up some knowledge","datePublished":"2021-09-19T23:20:25.988Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Uwr8LiyDi#c-L5JflrTP3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Code Williams","url":"https://daily.dev/codenamedx","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1631970831/avatars/ZEn4pXNrqGdWztqiJpqYk"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This article make me want to know more about this technology 🤔.","datePublished":"2021-09-19T21:16:10.272Z","dateModified":"2021-09-19T21:28:57.892Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Uwr8LiyDi#c-0Eu3Dphvd","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Abdelali El Mantagui","url":"https://daily.dev/amghnass","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46652993?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Really good article","datePublished":"2022-04-17T22:26:01.181Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Uwr8LiyDi#c-12Wsc5yLx","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bruno Alencar","url":"https://daily.dev/brunoalencar","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11480376?v=4"}}]} ```