gRPC vs Insomnium
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gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking... | It is a 100% local, privacy-focused, and open-source API client for testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, Server-sent events, and gRPC in development/production. |
Simple service definition;Works across languages and platforms;Start quickly and scale;Works across languages and platforms;Bi-directional streaming and integrated auth | Works 100% offline, the way a local testing tool should behave;
No cloud services, no tracking/communication to external servers behind the scene |
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GitHub Stars 43.9K | GitHub Stars 3.5K |
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