Announced just 1 week ago, we’re seeing some very cheerful adoption on GitHub…
626 stars and rising 
I want to be sure that everyone has the opprotunity to check it out, so am adding some relevant links and clips below:
Use gRPC but wish you didn’t? You’re in luck!
DRPC is a lightweight, drop-in, protocol buffer-based gRPC replacement. The DRPC protocol strips out huge swaths of unnecessary complexity; it is implemented in just a few thousand lines of straightforward Go! DRPC is small, extensible, efficient, and can still be autogenerated from your existing Protobuf definition files
