Introduction to gRPC
Explore the fundamentals of gRPC, an efficient RPC framework using HTTP/2 and protocol buffers. Understand how gRPC enables multi-language client-server communication, supports streaming, and simplifies developing performant services in Go.
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gRPC is an open-source remote procedure call (RPC) system that was developed at Google back in 2015. It is built on top of HTTP/2, allows us to create services easily, and uses protocol buffers as the IDL, which specifies the format of the interchanged messages and the service interface.
gRPC clients and servers can be written in any programming language without the need to have clients written in the same programming language as their servers. This means that we can develop a client in Python, even if the gRPC ...