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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

Technical requirements

You can find the code for this chapter in the folder called chapter5 in the companion repo for this book at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/gRPC-Go-for-Professionals/tree/main/chapter9. In this chapter, I will be using three main tools: ghz, grpcurl, and Wireshark. You should already have Wireshark installed from Chapter 1, but if this is not the case, you can find it at https://www.wireshark.org/. ghz is a tool that will let us load test our API. You can get it by visiting https://ghz.sh/. Finally, we will use grpcurl to interact with our API from the terminal. You should be able to get it from https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl.