Distributed Services with Go

What Is gRPC?

When I was building distributed services in the past, the two common problems that drove me batty were maintaining compatibility and maintaining performance between clients and the server.

I wanted to ensure that clients and the server were always compatible—that the client was sending requests that the server understood, and vice versa with the server’s responses. When I made breaking changes to the server, I wanted to ensure that old clients continued to work, and I accomplished this by versioning my API.

For maintaining good performance, your main priorities are optimizing your database queries and optimizing the algorithms you’ve used to implement your business logic. Once you’ve optimized those though, performance will often ...