NOTE: I'd love to do better formatting. But for some reason I can't do line breaks in-between list items. For over two decades, The Pragmatic Programmer has influenced how developers think about their craft, responsibility, and long-term software qu...

TL;DR: We benchmarked REST vs gRPC under identical local setups using .NET. While gRPC is widely believed to outperform REST, our results show REST can be equally, or even slightly faster in specific data-heavy operations. As microservices multiply ...