Exercise 3: Working with gRPC

Let’s test our understanding by attempting this challenge.

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Let’s practice what we’ve learned so far. The solution to this exercise will be provided in the next lesson.

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Create a RESTful service that uses gRPC for data exchange. Define the REST API you are going to support, but use gRPC for the communication between the RESTful server and the gRPC server—in this case, the RESTful server is going to act as a gRPC client to the gRPC server. To execute the RESTful service:

Open a new terminal window and execute the rServer.go code using the following commands:

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Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Exercise 3: Working with gRPC

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