Exploring Modern API Service Models: gRPC, GraphQL, REST, WebSocket, and WebHook
This article reviews common API service implementation models—gRPC, GraphQL, REST, WebSocket—and introduces WebHook as a passive real‑time communication mechanism, explaining their key characteristics and typical use cases in modern distributed systems.
Previously we introduced several API service implementation models, including:
gRPC : a high‑performance, cross‑language, easily extensible RPC framework widely used in microservice architectures.
GraphQL : an open‑source architecture from Facebook that lets clients request exactly the data they need, reducing over‑fetching.
REST : an architectural style for designing networked applications using standard HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to operate on resources.
WebSocket : a protocol that enables bidirectional real‑time communication over a single long‑lived connection, ideal for low‑latency scenarios such as chat, push notifications, and games.
Today we continue with another model: WebHook , a passive real‑time communication mechanism where an application sends an HTTP POST request to a predefined URL to notify and trigger actions in another system.
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Programmer DD
A tinkering programmer and author of "Spring Cloud Microservices in Action"
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