gRPC in Go

• Alternative to HTTP based RESTful services

• Communication patterns:

  • request and response

  • server streaming (one request and a stream of responses)

  • client streaming (stream of requests and one response)

  • bidirectional streaming (stream of requests & stream of responses)

• HTTP2 (initially “SPDY” protocol was developer by Google! around 2002-04?, they used it in Chrome and later open-sourced it)

  • SSE

  • Sticky session/connection

  • bidirectional

  • streaming

  • etc. (?? LOOK UP! ??)

• Uses Protocol Buffers for serializing payloads

  • Share the schema among the cunsumers and producers in advance

• Multi-language Support

  • JVM (Java, Kotlin)

  • Node

  • Python

  • C# / .NET

  • Dart

  • C++

  • Go

  • Ruby

  • PHP

  • Obj-C