REST is not the Best for Micro-Services #grpc and #docker makes a compelling case
▻https://hackernoon.com/rest-in-peace-grpc-for-micro-service-and-grpc-for-the-web-a-how-to-908cc
For quite a long time, when Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and WebService were the talk of the tech town, most of the software systems were built using SOAP and related WSDL technology. I was involved in multiple projects built using SOAP technology. I started first dabbling with REST when faced with the need to create a quick prototype north bound/external interface for a system.I, like many others, fell in love with REST immediately ;more so after reading more about it, in the jewel of a paper (Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures,) by Roy Fielding -principal author of HTTP protocol and consequently founder of the World Wide Web based on the internet. Soon along came JSON; and REST and JSON quickly replaced the cumbersome inefficient SOAP (...)