Great breakdown of why gRPC excels in performance while shedding light on the trade-offs! 🚀 HTTP/2 and Protobuf are indeed a powerful duo, making gRPC incredibly efficient for serialization, deserialization, and data transfer. Your points about the challenges—like load distribution, troubleshooting, and managing contracts—are spot on. It’s important to balance performance needs against operational complexity. Sometimes sticking with REST + JSON is the pragmatic choice, especially for simpler systems or external-facing APIs. Thanks for the clear and concise explanation! 👏