mickdelaney commented on issue #271: Consider using gRPC as an externally exposed API URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/271#issuecomment-534252436 Hi, Sorry for the late reply. So we use Kafka at the moment, confluent provide dotnet & python clients, based on librdkafka which in theory gives a baseline for all clients that extend it. The reality is that its very expensive to maintain all these language drivers, and so you get differences, you get things that are coming down the line, for example the schema/avro support in the various languages for kafka varies significantly, Java being very different than say C#. So for teams using these drivers, you have to rely on different semantics, you have to create different approaches to dealing with things like schemas, and it increases costs. Also you have to think about the teams providing the drivers, and the costs they have in maintaining them. Its not easy. So if there's a possibility that GRPC will fit the semantis of pulsars protocol, it seems to me that its a win for everyone, the pulsar team in particular can focus they're attention on making the GRPC layer first class. Thanks...
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