I don't understand why people use grpc. There are better ways.
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#42I don't understand why people use grpc. There are better ways.
What are your complaints against it, if you don't mind my asking? The reason I ask is that after what I consider pretty careful evaluation of my own needs, I arrived at gRPC as the best solution. Of course it's not the best for every case, but surely there is a reason for its popularity.
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#43How do you make the site so fast? I am genuinely shocked at how fast each click loads (even first-click). I see some docusaurous and mdx mentions in the source as well as react components, but I am curious how you make it so speedy?
It is a Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io) site, served on GitLab pages via Cloudflare.
When JavaScript is enabled, Docusaurus pre-fetches links that you hover, resulting in a faster load. So Docusaurus deserves the praise for the fast page loads, we are not doing anything special :)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
People commenting online is a specific subset of the customer base and general population. They will lean open source/anti-business/linux-desktop way more than those things are relevant in the real world. From online discussions one would think desktop linux is incredibly important, when in fact it is pretty irrelevant.
Maybe, and I guess that's great for the commercial potential of a product. But we, who are paid to make the most informed decisions, have to think harder. Speaking personally, I use a REST/GraphQL client to test critical parts of an authenticated service. It is often necessary to test with elevated privileges. The consequences of credential leakage can be severe, and could have regulatory implications. I cannot accep…
Case-in-point why reading online comments needs to be taken with a heavy grain of salt. Following your needs would lead them into a grave. You are not a customer worth pursuing.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe, and I guess that's great for the commercial potential of a product. But we, who are paid to make the most informed decisions, have to think harder. Speaking personally, I use a REST/GraphQL client to test critical parts of an authenticated service. It is often necessary to test with elevated privileges. The consequences of credential leakage can be severe, and could have regulatory implications. I cannot accep…
Case-in-point why reading online comments needs to be taken with a heavy grain of salt. Following your needs would lead them into a grave. You are not a customer worth pursuing.
These needs are not incompatible with a marketable product, and in fact make the product viable for larger and more valuable customers.
Open source is not a requirement, but auditability is critical. You can achieve auditability in a number of ways -- open source is just the least costly path.
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#46Postman, since they raised money have really lost their way in my opinion. The tool gets harder to use, with a more cluttered UI in every release. Seemingly random UI decisions make it awful to use. Glad to see competition in the space, but I doubt that Kreya can claim to be a "postman alternative" unless it has 75% feature parity with Postman, simply because the range of ways people use Postman is so broad, that it'…
I really hate the fact that I can no longer save a simple request without putting it into a folder (or "collection" or whatever).
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#47I don't understand why people use grpc. There are better ways.
What are your complaints against it, if you don't mind my asking? The reason I ask is that after what I consider pretty careful evaluation of my own needs, I arrived at gRPC as the best solution. Of course it's not the best for every case, but surely there is a reason for its popularity.
All kinds of frameworks and tooling are lacking.
I worked previously with REST/ GraphQL and they have everything I need. Easy way to mock the HTTP 1.1 protocol, easy way to write automation scripts, easy way to debug/customize. Easy for new developers since everybody uses HTTP 1.1. I work with Java and Spring and HTTP 1.1 support is OOTB. For GRPC you have limited tools and unofficial libraries.
When considering an alternative, I was thinking about REST / GraphQL over HTTP2, with a centralized "Type System" and generated models / code (basically GRPC but more user friendly). For me "sending a HTTP2 request with a json payload" seems better and more user friendly than "sending a grpc request"
But now that I looked a bit more into it, seems like HTTP2 might not have a lot of support, so do your own research.
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#48Postman, since they raised money have really lost their way in my opinion. The tool gets harder to use, with a more cluttered UI in every release. Seemingly random UI decisions make it awful to use. Glad to see competition in the space, but I doubt that Kreya can claim to be a "postman alternative" unless it has 75% feature parity with Postman, simply because the range of ways people use Postman is so broad, that it'…
For this exact reason I moved to Insomnia
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#49Honestly, if you’re a VSCode user, just get the “Thunder Client” plugin. Gets the job done, and keeps you in the editor!
Along with that, if you are using IntelliJ (or any flavor of it i.e. Webstorm) you can build out http requests natively in there as well and save them to any file ending in .http
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#50Postman, since they raised money have really lost their way in my opinion. The tool gets harder to use, with a more cluttered UI in every release. Seemingly random UI decisions make it awful to use. Glad to see competition in the space, but I doubt that Kreya can claim to be a "postman alternative" unless it has 75% feature parity with Postman, simply because the range of ways people use Postman is so broad, that it'…
I've noticed the same thing. Postman has gotten worse over time.