Keynote: What's New in gRPC?
summary
Release notes state a fully functional gRPC transport for MCP is available and being made pluggable into MCP servers, enabling gRPC as a first‑class AI backend; a new gRPC Rust (tonic) with XDS brings language parity and native service‑mesh support; XDS gains ext_proc and ext_auth callout plugins for request mutation and authorization; HTTP CONNECT is integrated with XDS; Spiffe trust bundles and mTLS for C++, Go and Java land early next year; RLQS global rate limiting, ChannelZ v2, 12 new metrics and a non‑per‑call metrics framework are shipping.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26gRPC roadmap pillars
- 2:14gRPC in AI ecosystem
- 4:02gRPC Rust implementation
- 5:08New XDS features
- 6:54HTTP Connect with XDS
- 8:45Spiffy trust bundles
- 10:34Serverless integration
- 12:38XDS rate limiting
- 14:02STO integration
- 14:47Channel Z v2
- 16:39Observability metrics
- 18:27Recap and future of gRPC
