Comment on Demystifying the protobuf wire formatparentComments−skinner9272ySo why did you choose to use grpc if you were just going to have to convert it?−bairen2yWe use a few of the endpoints in the backend. Service to service communication.Those same endpoints are used with envoy. By our UI.That choice was made to reduce code bloat.Rather than maintain grpc and envoy it's easier to just maintain 1 rest API.The service to service communication was never a bottle neck.So it was highly prematurely optimized.We spend way more time keeping evoy and our grpc compilers up to date and free of security issues than I would like.It's just extra software and thus extra attack surfaces we didn't need. In retrospect
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So why did you choose to use grpc if you were just going to have to convert it?
We use a few of the endpoints in the backend. Service to service communication.
Those same endpoints are used with envoy. By our UI.
That choice was made to reduce code bloat.
Rather than maintain grpc and envoy it's easier to just maintain 1 rest API.
The service to service communication was never a bottle neck.
So it was highly prematurely optimized.
We spend way more time keeping evoy and our grpc compilers up to date and free of security issues than I would like.
It's just extra software and thus extra attack surfaces we didn't need. In retrospect