gRPC, protobuf

gRPC can be done with “curl over HTTP/2” — in a request-response manner, but without streaming.

Protobuf encoding is not a part of KPHP but is easily made with PHP.
Standard PHP-proto-generators are not suitable, because they generate too abstract code — with accessing fields by dynamic names and other non-compilable approaches.

Here is a KPHP-compatible library for Protobuf: /kphp-snippets/protobuf.
It contains all necessary documentation and can be copy-pasted without modification.
For now, you manually write PHP classes representing the .proto scheme, but it's very fast and easy.

Here is a KPHP-compatible library for gRPC: /kphp-snippets/grpc.
It sends Protobuf-encoded data over HTTP/2 and can be copy-pasted with slight modifications.
It is based on curl_multi invocations and can be used asynchronously.