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gRPC for microservices in Kubernetes
I have been experimenting with gRPC for some time now. I wrote some articles to cover the basics like What is gRPC? SSL/TLS Auth in gRPC, and communication patterns used in gRPC. In these topics I went through some of the advantages of gRPC over traditional REST API for inter-service communication – especially in a…
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gRPC Communication Patterns
One of the advantages gRPC offers over REST based services is the streaming bi-directional communication. Traditional implementations which depend on REST APIs often implement Web Sockets to enable real bi-directional streaming of data packets. I said real because it is still possible to simulate streaming behavior using REST, which of course is not performant, and…
