gRPC - Exposing Public APIs

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Feb 26, Google announced gRPC: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com.br/2015/02/introducing-grpc-new-open-source-http2.html

In that post they said: "Internally at Google, we are starting to use gRPC to expose most of our public services through gRPC endpoints as part of our long term commitment to HTTP/2.

If they are starting to use gRPC to expose their public APIs... What they are using to communicate internally between applications?

Is there a specific problem in using gRPC also for internal communication between apps?

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There's no problem with using gRPC for internal communication - it's really great for that in fact. There are some applications that are looking to do that at Google, and more will follow as older technologies are phased out.