gRPC Services in .NET Proto File Service Implementation Server Setup Client (with Aspire) gRPC vs REST Decision Matrix (from official docs) | Aspect | gRPC | REST/HTTP | |--------|------|----------| | Serialization | Protocol Buffers (binary) | JSON (text) | | Protocol | HTTP/2 | HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 | | Payload size | Small, compressed | Larger, human-readable | | Latency | Low ( 10x faster) | Higher | | Browser support | Limited (gRPC-Web) | Full | | Code generation | Automatic (contract-first) | Manual | | Streaming | Native, bidirectional | Limited | | Debugging | Binary (harder) | Easy (HT…