Building Microservice Communication with gRPC
summary
The talk examines migrating microservice communication from traditional HTTP APIs to gRPC, describing why the team chose gRPC, migration challenges they encountered, and measured performance comparisons between protocols. It presents concrete use cases where adopting gRPC paid off and scenarios where gRPC was less effective, based on the presenter’s real-world experience.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:33Microservice communication basics
- 8:26What is gRPC and benefits
- 17:40gRPC vs HTTP experiment
- 28:05Load balancing in gRPC
- 42:25When not to use gRPC
- 51:16Testing, auth, and errors
- 59:07Summary
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