gRPC

Summary of gRPC itself

• g + RPC
• RPC
  • Remote Procedure Call
  • Procedure Call
  • Not a new idea
• Google claimed it as..
  • Modern RPC framework
  • High performance
  • Easily scalable
  • Automatically generate stubs in a variety of languages and platforms
• Under the hood
  • gRPC - framework and protocol
  • Protocol buffers - wire format and Interface Definition Language
  • HTTP/2 - transport layer
• Alternatives
  • Avro
  • Thrift
  • JSON-RPC

Flexibility

Sample

Same code through gRPC

gRPC Client - BloomRPC - you can imagine yet another Postman for gRPC

alternatives

• bloomrpc/bloomrpc - 5.5k
• ktr0731/evans - 2k
• fullstorydev/grpcui - 1.7k
• rogchap/wombat - 878
• warmuuh/milkman
• gusaul/grpcox
• oslabs-beta/Yodelay
• muninrpc/muninrpc
• kfwerf/delivery
• https://kreya.app

Same code through HTTP

$ curl localhost:8088/v2/vendors/2/products
{"products":[{"id":"1", "name":"", "available":false, "sort":0, "useStock":false, "productLabel":"", "preorderPolicy":"", "releaseDate":null, "publishOn":null, "publishOff":null, "productCode":"", "productType":"", "instockLabel":"", "importedFrom":"", "importVendorId":"0", "importProductId":"0", "weight":"0", "vendor":null, "promotion":null, "images":[], "productVariation":[], "vendorCategories":[]}]}%

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