gRPC and Protocol Buffers

aid: specifications:grpc-protobuf
name: gRPC and Protocol Buffers
description: gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as
  its IDL and wire format. Service definitions are written in .proto files. gRPC is a CNCF graduated project;
  Protocol Buffers (proto2/proto3, with proto editions emerging) are maintained by Google. Both are Apache
  2.0 / BSD-3-Clause licensed.
humanURL: https://grpc.io/
baseURL: https://protobuf.dev/
tags:
- gRPC
- Protobuf
- Protocol Buffers
- RPC
- CNCF
- Specification Language
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://grpc.io/docs/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/
  title: Protocol Buffers Language Guide (proto3)
- type: Specification
  url: https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/proto3-spec/
  title: Protocol Buffers proto3 Specification
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/grpc
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/protocolbuffers
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/grpc/grpc
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
- type: Governance
  url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/grpc/
  title: gRPC at CNCF
- type: License
  url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  title: Apache 2.0
- type: Example
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/specifications/refs/heads/main/examples/grpc-protobuf-example.json
  title: gRPC / Protobuf Specification Record Example