[mappu]

I performed the exact opposite migration at $DAYJOB recently - swapping an internal text-based protocol to HTTP (over a local IPC pipe).

The main benefit was we could suddenly reuse all the codegenerated routers/docs/authentication from the HTTP ecosystem. It significantly simplified/standardised our IPC layer and reduced the "weirdness" in the codebase.

[pathseeker]

Yep. Unless you're doing thousands of requests per second+, the right RPC protocol is likely just HTTP due to the massive improvement in mature tooling, debugging, etc.

[cogman10]

Today's toasters can handle 1k http requests per second. :)

The overhead of Http (especially 2/3) matters so little on modern hardware.