storj/drpc

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1630 stars · 61 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

drpc is a lightweight, drop-in replacement for gRPC written in Go, with a small dependency footprint and a fast custom wire format. It is transport agnostic, supports middleware, and is battle-tested in production across tens of thousands of servers.

Use cases

• replace gRPC with a lighter rpc framework in Go
• serve gRPC and drpc on the same port
• build microservices with minimal dependencies
• stream bidirectional rpc over websockets
• serve twirp or grpc-web clients from a Go backend

When to choose

• you want gRPC-like rpc in Go with a tiny dependency tree
• you need a fast, simple wire protocol for internal services
• you want transport-agnostic rpc with middleware support
• you need to serve gRPC-compatible and drpc traffic on one port

When to avoid

• you need full gRPC feature parity or ecosystem tooling
• your clients are in languages without drpc support
• you rely on gRPC-specific features like advanced load balancing

Facets

library · maturity active

rpc serialization middleware microservices apis backend developer-tools go cross-platform grpc-replacement protobuf wire-protocol streaming lightweight

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