Keynote: gRPC Opening Keynote - Abhishek Kumar, Google & Arunkumar Jayaraman, Google
summary
gRPC traces its roots to Stubby and Protocol Buffers, implements token-based flow control later standardized in HTTP/2, and ships a pluggable security stack with TLS/mTLS and authorization plugins. It powers Google Cloud services and undergoes continuous performance tuning; an internal deployment runs 100,000+ services. Ecosystem work includes xDS control-plane compatibility, a proxyless service mesh prototype, and observability moving from OpenCensus toward OpenTelemetry with ChannelZ instrumentation still needing better exporter integration.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and history
- 2:12What is gRPC?
- 3:39Value for organizations
- 6:04Ecosystem and performance
- 9:40Key feature classes
- 14:07gRPC in service mesh
- 24:34Observability and roadmap
- 28:11Q&A session
