# gRPC

[gRPC](https://grpc.io/) is a transport mechanism for request/response and (non-persistent) streaming use cases. See [Why gRPC?](https://developer.lightbend.com/docs/akka-grpc/current/whygrpc.html) for more information about when to use gRPC as your transport.

## Akka gRPC

Akka gRPC provides support for building Reactive Streams-compliant gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams.
Learn more about it in the [Akka gRPC documentation](https://developer.lightbend.com/docs/akka-grpc/current/).   
