Having worked with SOAP and then REST and before that COM and CORBA I see that the best tool now for composing Micro Services seem to be GRPC . There is no problem with REST for its purpose, but it does not but fit well into software production with distributed teams and continuous delivery.https://medium.com/techlogs/rest-in-peace-grpc-for-micro-service-and-grpc-for-the-web-a-how-to-908cc05e1083