Best of gRPC — October 2025

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   Quarkus·29w

   Grpc Zero

   Quarkus gRPC Zero eliminates the need for native protoc binaries by running gRPC code generation entirely within the JVM. It embeds libprotobuf compiled to WebAssembly and translated to Java bytecode using Chicory, enabling portable and consistent builds across all platforms. Developers can continue writing .proto files as usual while avoiding platform-specific toolchain maintenance, simplifying CI pipelines, and reducing dependencies. The extension is currently experimental and available as a drop-in replacement for the standard quarkus-grpc-codegen artifact.

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   Medium·27w

   Protocol Buffers Over HTTP: You Don’t Need gRPC to Use Protobuf

   Protocol Buffers can be used directly over standard HTTP without gRPC. The article demonstrates building a Go HTTP server that serves Protobuf-encoded binary data, proving that Protobuf is just a serialization format independent of the transport layer. It includes a working example with two endpoints: one returning Protobuf binary data and another decoding it back to JSON, showing how to leverage Protobuf's benefits (smaller payload size, faster serialization, type safety) while maintaining existing HTTP infrastructure.

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