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Microservices Communication in .NET Using gRPC

By : Fiodar Sazanavets
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Microservices Communication in .NET Using gRPC

By: Fiodar Sazanavets

Overview of this book

Explore gRPC's capabilities for faster communication between your microservices using the HTTP/2 protocol in this practical guide that shows you how to implement gRPC on the .NET platform. gRPC is one of the most efficient protocols for communication between microservices that is also relatively easy to implement. However, its official documentation is often fragmented and.NET developers might find it difficult to recognize the best way to map between C# data types and fields in gRPC messages. This book will address these concerns and much more. Starting with the fundamentals of gRPC, you'll discover how to use it inside .NET apps. You’ll explore best practices for performance and focus on scaling a gRPC app. Once you're familiar with the inner workings of the different call types that gRPC supports, you'll advance to learning how to secure your gRPC endpoints by applying authentication and authorization. With detailed explanations, this gRPC .NET book will show you how the Protobuf protocol allows you to send messages efficiently by including only the necessary data. You'll never get confused again while translating between C# data types and the ones available in Protobuf. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained practical gRPC knowledge and be able to use it in .NET apps to enable direct communication between microservices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Basics of gRPC on .NET
5
Section 2: Best Practices of Using gRPC
9
Section 3: In-Depth Look at gRPC on .NET

Chapter 11: Using Logging, Metrics, and Debugging in gRPC on .NET

We have reached the final chapter of the book, and it covers a very important topic that will help you to identify problems easily if something in your gRPC application isn't working as expected when you are writing it. Also, you will learn how to monitor your application once it's up and running. This will allow you to identify any issues early and respond to them proactively rather than reactively.

We will start by going through various debugging techniques you can use on both the gRPC client and server. Of course, to debug your own code, all you have to do is place breakpoints in it. However, during the development of gRPC applications, you may encounter situations where it's not your own code that is generating an issue. Therefore, we will need to be able to extract as much information from the gRPC middleware as we can.

But once your application is up and running, you would want to know what...