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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

Types of gRPC Endpoints

In this chapter, we are going to see the different types of gRPC endpoints that you can write. For each of the endpoints, we are going to understand what the idea behind the type of communication we are talking about is, and we are going to define an RPC endpoint in our Protobuf service. Finally, we are going to implement that endpoint and write a client to consume the endpoint. At the end of this chapter, the goal is to implement a TODO API that will let us create, update, delete, and list the tasks in our TODO list.

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

  • What the four types of RPC endpoints you can write are
  • When to use each of them
  • How to implement the endpoint’s logic
  • How to consume a gRPC endpoint