HTTP, TCP, UDP, REST, RPC, gRPC, GraphQL.
Communication protocols define how distributed systems exchange data. Network protocols (TCP, UDP) handle reliable transport, while application protocols (HTTP,
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the foundational application-layer protocol for data exchange on the web, operating as a stateless request-response protoc
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a connection-oriented transport protocol that guarantees reliable, ordered delivery of data between applications over IP
UDP is a connectionless transport protocol that trades reliability for speed, delivering datagrams without handshakes, acknowledgments, or ordering guarantees.
REST is an architectural style for building APIs that treats everything as a resource with a unique identifier, manipulated through standard HTTP methods. It em
RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is a communication protocol that allows a client to execute a procedure on a remote server as if it were a local function call, abst
gRPC is Google's open-source RPC framework built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, delivering 5-10x better performance than REST for service-to-service communicat
GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs that lets clients request exactly the data they need in a single round-trip. Unlike REST's fixed endpoints, Gra