gRPC [2] is a modern open source framework that was created by Google to assist the process of implementing APIs that are based on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm. In contrast to the REST architecture, which is more suited for connecting web-based clients such as browsers to backend services, gRPC was proposed as a cross-platform and cross-language alternative for building low-latency and highly scalable distributed systems.
Do you know what the letter g in gRPC stands for? A lot of people naturally think that it stands for Google, a reasonable assumption given that gRPC was released by Google in the first place. Others believe that gRPC is a recursive acronym, that is, gRPC Remote Procedure Calls.
The fun fact is that both interpretations are wrong! According to the gRPC documentation on GitHub, the meaning of the letter...