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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use all of the core structural components of Protobuf. You now know all of the rpc types supported by Protobuf. You also learned all of the possible ways of annotating your Protobuf elements with comments.

You learned about all of the inbuilt data types in Protobuf and how they get converted to C# data types. We covered all of the types of integers available in Protobuf and how to choose the right data type depending on what kind of values it's intended to represent. We also covered other scalar types, such as bool, string, and float. In addition to this, you learned how to use nested message and enum definitions.

You also learned how to use two types of collections in Protobuf – repeated fields and maps – and learned that the former is used for creating collections of single values, while the latter is used for creating a dictionary-like collection of key-value pairs. You also learned which data types and keywords...