July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
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Exposing NewsManager as a gRPC service
Before diving into the gRPC implementation of the news service, let's see what all the fuss is about. The gRPC is a collection of a wire protocol, payload format, conceptual framework, and code generation facilities for interconnecting services and applications. It originated in Google (hence the g in gRPC) and is a highly performant and mature RPC framework. It has many things going for it, such as the following:
- Cross-platform
- Wide spread adoption by industry
- Idiomatic client libraries for all relevant programming languages
- Extremely efficient wire protocols
- Google protocol buffers for strongly typed contracts
- HTTP/2 support enables bi-directional streaming
- Highly extensible (customize your own authentication, ...