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gRPC & High Performance APIs · Lesson

RPC vs. REST Overview

Understand the fundamental differences and use cases between Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and Representational State Transfer (REST).

API Communication Patterns

APIs are how software systems talk — requesting data or actions remotely. Let's explore two fundamental communication styles: REST and RPC.

What is REST?

REST is an architectural style that treats everything as a resource — a user, a product — that you act on with standard HTTP methods like GET and POST.

All lessons in this course

  1. Why High Performance APIs?
  2. What is gRPC?
  3. RPC vs. REST Overview
  4. HTTP/2 & Protocol Buffers: The gRPC Foundation
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