gRPC for .NET

Trigger On

• building backend-to-backend RPC services or clients
• adding protobuf contracts, streaming calls, or interceptors
• deciding between gRPC, HTTP APIs, and SignalR
• optimizing gRPC performance, deadlines, cancellation, or connection reuse
• integrating service-to-service communication in microservices

Do Not Use For

• public browser-first APIs unless gRPC-Web limitations are explicitly acceptable
• SignalR hub design, realtime UI fan-out, or websocket-style client collaboration
• generic ASP.NET Core minimal APIs or REST controllers with no protobuf/RPC requirement
• non-.NET gRPC work unless the user asks for cross-stack contract guidance

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