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Introduction to gRPC

Let’s explore the benefits of gRPC and learn about protocol buffers.

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Advantages
Protocol buffers

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 ...

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

Introduction to gRPC