High Architecture Question 129 of 215

When would you choose gRPC over REST in .NET?

.NET / C# · Speak this in 60–90 seconds · Faridabad & Delhi NCR

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gRPC shines for internal service-to-service with protobuf and HTTP/2 streaming.

Why interviewers care about Architecture:

They are checking judgment

on Architecture.

A good answer names

the situation, the default choice, and one exception - that reads as experience.

Stay structured

Name the idea, why it exists, then one short example.

Close cleanly

End with when you use it and one common pitfall.

Before you speak the answer, walk the interviewer through these steps:

1
gRPC shines for internal
service-to-service with protobuf and HTTP/2 streaming.
2
Browsers still prefer REST
or gRPC-Web.
3
I document contracts with
proto files.
4
Give an example
One tiny concrete case you can say aloud.
5
Common mistake
What juniors usually get wrong.
6
Close
When you pick this over the alternative.

Here's a short line you can speak, broken into clear beats:

Say this line

“Browsers still prefer REST or gRPC-Web.”

Break into beats

BrowsersstillpreferRESTorgRPC

Speaking order

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Note: Adapt this scaffold to your own project — keep it under 60–90 seconds.

gRPC shines for internal service-to-service with protobuf and HTTP/2 streaming. Browsers still prefer REST or gRPC-Web.