[withinboredom]

With GRPC, you lose the ability to introspect the data on-the-wire. You lose the ability to create optimized data formats for YOUR application (who said you have to use JSON?) Most people can’t implement REST correctly, so it has been a shitshow for the last 20 or so years, GRPC isn’t a magic bullet, it just forces you to solve problems (or helps you to solve them) that you should have been doing in the first place. You can do all of these things without GRPC, there is no power it grants you that can’t be done better or at all in your own libraries and specs.

[ackfoobar]

I suppose you mean "inspect" the data on-the-wire

https://grpc.io/blog/wireshark/

Wireshark can load proto files and decode the data for you.

BTW, "The Internet is running in debug mode".