OpenShift Commons Briefing #69: gRPC Microservices on OpenShift with Ray Tsang (Google)

OpenShift Commons Briefing Summary

In this briefing, Google's Ray Tsang discussed how to use gRPC’s streaming API, where you can establish server-side streaming, client-side streaming, and bidirectional streaming. This allows developers to build sophisticated real-time applications with ease.

In addition to learning about gRPC and HTTP/2 concepts with code and demonstrations, we’ll also take a deep dive into integration with existing build systems such as Maven and Gradle, but also frameworks such as Spring Boot and RxJava.

• Configuring projects to generate gRPC stub code
• Using Protobuf3 to define services
• Creating synchronous and asynchronous services, with streaming
• Load balancing
• Interceptors

gRPC is a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. gRPC is based on many years of Google’s experience in building distributed systems – it is designed to be low latency, bandwidth and CPU efficient, to create massively distributed systems that span data centers, as well as power mobile apps, real-time communications, IoT devices and APIs. It’s also interoperable between multiple languages.

The main usage scenarios:

• Efficiently connecting polyglot services in microservices style architecture
• Connecting mobile devices, browser clients to backend services
• Generating efficient client libraries
  Core Features that make it awesome:
• Idiomatic client libraries in 10 languages
• Highly efficient on wire and with a simple service definition framework
• Bi-directional streaming with http/2 based transport
• Pluggable auth, tracing, load balancing and health checking

gRPC is now a CNCF hosted project, you can learn more about gRPC on OpenShift here.

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