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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)
10
Epilogue

Summary

In this chapter, we covered unit and load testing. We saw that we can find bugs and performance issues by extensively testing different parts of our system. Then, we saw how to debug our application when we found a bug. We used server reflection and grpcurl to interact with our API from the terminal. Finally, we saw how we can containerize our services and deploy them on Kubernetes. We saw that we can create headless services to expose our microservices with a DNS A record per gRPC server, and we saw that we can put Envoy in front of them to do load balancing, rate limiting, authentication, and so on.