1 Introduction to Go gRPC microservices

This chapter covers

  • Introducing Go gRPC microservices
  • Comparing gRPC with REST
  • Understanding when to use gRPC
  • Applying gRPC microservices to production-grade use cases

Good architecture design and proper technology selection help ensure a high-quality product by eliminating repetitive work and providing the best tool kit for software development and maintenance. While microservice architecture can be implemented in any language, Go is particularly suited for building high-performance cloud-native distributed applications such as microservices in Kubernetes on a large scale. Microservices with gRPC communication have already enabled many companies to implement their products with small services based on ...

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