Building Microservices with Go

Efficiency

Thanks to the use of HTTP/2 and the binary messaging, gRPC is incredibly quick and capable of supporting a massive throughput. The option for streaming data to the client is a fantastic feature. From a mobile perspective, the client only needs to maintain a single connection to the server, which is efficient, and the server can push data updates to this open connection. For an example of how this could work, have a look at some code I created for a talk at GoLang UK (https://github.com/gokitter). This implements a simple server and an Android client that receives streaming updates. Rather than using native gRPC clients on Android, I geeked out using GoMobile to compile a native framework that was written in Go, and then used this ...