Challenge 2: Identify What's Generated — Possible Solution ==================================================================== GENERATED ON THE CLIENT SIDE: a client stub class (e.g. UserServiceClient) containing a method matching the one rpc definition — calling it handles connecting to the server, serializing the request message into Protobuf binary, sending it over HTTP/2, and deserializing the response back into a usable object automatically. GENERATED ON THE SERVER SIDE: a base/interface definition wiring up the routing for that one method — accepting an incoming call, already deserializing the request message, and expecting a callback/handler to be registered for that specific method name. WHAT A DEVELOPER STILL HAS TO WRITE BY HAND: exactly one thing — the ACTUAL METHOD BODY implementing the real business logic on the server side (e.g. querying a database, applying validation rules, deciding what to return). Nothing about serialization, deserialization, request routing, or the network transport itself needs to be written manually — protoc's generated code handles all of that; the only genuinely new code is the logic that decides WHAT the response should actually contain.