November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
If you need to employ a request/response architecture, using gRPC with protocol buffers is the way to go. gRPC allow us to easily release SDKs. Now integration is a matter of and asking the other developers to copy-paste example code written in their language. This represents a big win for companies what want to integrate with our products, while not requiring us to implement entire SDKs in all the various languages that our vendors and partners use.
gRPC is built on HTTP/2 HTTP/2's client-side and/or server-side streaming allow for faster response times and support for bulk ingestion and bi-directional streaming. We can asynchronously stream requests/responses; The server would stream back status messages, allowing for easy ...