Introduction To gRPC

gRPC is a high performance Remote Procedure Call framework that can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. The main benefits of gRPC are: Modern, high-performance, lightweight RPC framework. Contract-first API development, using Protocol Buffers by default, allowing for language agnostic implementations. Tooling available for many languages to generate strongly-typed servers and clients. Supports client, server, and bi-directional streaming calls. Reduced network usage with Protobuf binary serialization. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:19 What is gRPC 02:40 Why is gRPC 03:54 Other RPC frameworks 06:06 Stubby the Genesis of gRPC 08:29 gRPC the CNCF Incubation Project 10:15 When to use gRPC 11:30 Who is using gRPC 12:14 Advantages of HTTP/2 14:09 Protocol Buffers 17:35 Proto Document - Define your Service 23:46 gRPC Performance 31:33 HTTP/2 Multiplexing 33:51 HTTP/2 Full Duplex 34:15 HTTP/2 Header Compression 35:33 QUIC 38:49 gRPC Architecture