large file transfer with gRPC

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manor parmar

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Aug 6, 2021, 8:43:09 PM8/6/21
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I have C++ gRPC client and Java gRPC server.
Is gRPC right choice to transfer large files (>50 megabytes) with client side streaming ?
Why I am asking this is because gRPC is meant for small message transfer between microservices, right ?

Do we have any comparison between HTTP/1.1 multipart upload vs gRPC streaming in terms of performance and RTT ?

Mark D. Roth

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Aug 11, 2021, 12:57:21 PM8/11/21
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I don't think we have any benchmarks for this kind of use-case.  I think the performance would probably depend on the application protocol, like how you split up the file contents into messages sent on the gRPC stream.
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