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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 4: Performance Best Practices for Using gRPC on .NET

Since gRPC is often used for processing large volumes of data inside a distributed application, this communication mechanism must be optimized for the best performance. In this chapter, we will cover some best practices when it comes to using gRPC on ASP.NET Core to optimize its performance as much as possible.

If you don't know how to optimize gRPC for the best performance, you are running the risk of not being able to cope with the volume of data that your application is intended to process. Alternatively, you may need to scale your application out, which would require you to use additional software and hardware resources. If you are running your application under a cloud subscription, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS, unnecessarily scaling your application out will probably cost you some additional money. This is why it's important to use gRPC to its maximum potential before scaling out is required.

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