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What other interaction protocols/standards between systems do you know besides REST and SOAP?

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In addition to REST and SOAP, there are other protocols and standards for system interaction:

  • gRPC — a modern high-performance protocol from Google, using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers for serialization.
  • GraphQL — a query language and runtime environment for APIs, allowing clients to request exactly the data they need.
  • AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) — a protocol for message exchange between systems, often used in message brokers.
  • MQTT — a lightweight protocol for message transmission, often used in IoT.
  • WebSocket — a protocol for bidirectional real-time communication between client and server.
  • CORBA — a standard for object interaction in distributed systems.

Each of them is suitable for different scenarios depending on performance requirements, reliability, and data type.