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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…
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Intro to gRPC and Protocol Buffers using Go
Inter-service communication is perhaps one of the fundamental aspects of distributed computing. Almost everything relies on it. Distributed architectures consist of multiple microservices with multiple running instances each. The workloads run long running tasks on virtual or physical servers, containers, or Kubernetes clusters, while simpler tasks are run as serverless functions. gRPC caters to the…
