SOAP vs gRPC

Developers should learn SOAP for maintaining or integrating with legacy enterprise systems, financial services, or government applications where standardized, secure, and reliable communication is required meets developers should learn grpc when building microservices architectures, real-time applications, or systems requiring low-latency, high-throughput communication, such as in cloud-native environments or iot platforms. Here's our take.

SOAP

Nice Pick

Developers should learn SOAP for maintaining or integrating with legacy enterprise systems, financial services, or government applications where standardized, secure, and reliable communication is required

Pros

• It's particularly useful in scenarios involving complex transactions, such as in banking or healthcare, due to its built-in WS-Security standards and support for stateful operations
• Related to: xml, wsdl

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

gRPC

Developers should learn gRPC when building microservices architectures, real-time applications, or systems requiring low-latency, high-throughput communication, such as in cloud-native environments or IoT platforms

Pros

• It is particularly useful for polyglot systems where services are written in different languages, as it provides language-agnostic contracts via protobuf
• Related to: protocol-buffers, http-2

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. SOAP is a concept while gRPC is a framework. We picked SOAP based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

SOAP wins

Based on overall popularity. SOAP is more widely used, but gRPC excels in its own space.