dotnet-service-communication

Higher-level routing skill for choosing the right service communication protocol. Provides a decision matrix mapping requirements (latency, direction, client type, payload format, browser support) to the five primary .NET communication protocols: gRPC, SignalR, SSE, JSON-RPC 2.0, and REST. Routes to specialized skills for implementation depth.

Scope

• Decision matrix for gRPC, SignalR, SSE, JSON-RPC, REST
• Requirements mapping (latency, direction, client type, format)
• Routing to specialized implementation skills

Out of scope

• HTTP client factory and resilience pipelines -- see [skill:dotnet-http-client] and [skill:dotnet-resilience]
• Native AOT architecture and trimming -- see [skill:dotnet-native-aot] and [skill:dotnet-trimming]

Cross-references: [skill:dotnet-grpc] for gRPC implementation, [skill:dotnet-realtime-communication] for SignalR/SSE/JSON-RPC details, [skill:dotnet-http-client] for REST/HTTP client patterns. See [skill:dotnet-integration-testing] for testing service communication patterns.