Episode 134 - gRPC

gRPC (gRPC Remote Procedure Calls[1]) is an open source remote procedure call (RPC) system initially developed at Google in 2015[2]. It uses HTTP/2 for transport, Protocol Buffers as the message format. In this video I want to explore gRPC, go through examples, pros and cons of gRPC. Client/ Server communication SOAP HTTP (REST) WebSockets Client Libraries gRPC gRPC Demo todos gRPC Pros and Cons Pros Fast two/uni and request Unform One library to rule them all Progress feedback( long synchronous requests) drop pluggable wait...) cancel request All benefits of H2 and Protobuff Cons schema based (not everyone wants schema) Thick client - limited languages - Proxies still don’t understand it Still young Error handling No native browser support Timeouts, circuit breaker just like any RPC (pub/sub rules in this case) Can you create your own protocol? Spotify example with Hermes