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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

Technical requirements

To follow the instructions in this chapter, you will need the following:

  • A computer with either a Windows or Linux operating system (OS) (or a Windows or Linux virtual machine (VM) if you are using macOS)
  • A supported integrated development environment (IDE) or code editor (Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or JetBrains Rider)
  • The .NET 5 software development kit (SDK)

    Note

    Due to the lack of Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) support on macOS, it won't be possible to secure HTTP/2 ports with TLS on Macs. Therefore, if you are a Mac user, you will not be able to follow some of the instructions from this chapter. However, you will be able to implement the code samples if you set up either a Windows or Linux VM on your Mac.

The instructions on how to set all of these up were provided in Chapter 1, Creating a Basic gRPC Application on ASP.NET Core. All of the code samples used in this chapter can be found at https://github...