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gRPC Go for Professionals

By : Clément Jean
Book Image

gRPC Go for Professionals

By: Clément Jean

Overview of this book

In recent years, the popularity of microservice architecture has surged, bringing forth a new set of requirements. Among these, efficient communication between the different services takes center stage, and that's where gRPC shines. This book will take you through creating gRPC servers and clients in an efficient, secure, and scalable way. However, communication is just one aspect of microservices, so this book goes beyond that to show you how to deploy your application on Kubernetes and configure other tools that are needed for making your application more resilient. With these tools at your disposal, you’ll be ready to get started with using gRPC in a microservice architecture. In gRPC Go for Professionals, you'll explore core concepts such as message transmission and the role of Protobuf in serialization and deserialization. Through a step-by-step implementation of a TODO list API, you’ll see the different features of gRPC in action. You’ll then learn different approaches for testing your services and debugging your API endpoints. Finally, you’ll get to grips with deploying the application services via Docker images and Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Epilogue

Introduction to gRPC

Now that we have a basic understanding of how data flows over the network and how Protobuf works, we can enter the gRPC world. In this chapter, the goal is to understand what gRPC is doing on top of HTTP/2 and why Protobuf is the perfect fit for gRPC, and also to see that gRPC is a mature technology backed up by major companies in the industry. This will give us a sense of why gRPC is described as “Protobuf over HTTP/2” and make us confident in using it without fearing that the technology is too new and without community.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Major use cases for gRPC
  • Advantages of using Protobuf
  • The role of gRPC on top of Protobuf