gRPC & Kubernetes – Tom Wilkie

Video recorded at GDG DevFest Ukraine 2017 - the biggest Google tech conference in CEE. All about Android, Web and Cloud.
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In this talk we will discuss the use of gRPC to build a microservices-based application on Kubernetes. We’ll firstly focus on the basic concepts of gRPC: protocol buffers, code generation and HTTP 2.0. We’ll then discuss some more intermediate-level features, such as native Kubernetes load balancing, gRPC streaming, error propagation, HTTP tunneling and instrumentation. Finally we’ll touch on some of the newer, exciting developments in the space: middleware and context propagation for distributed tracing, gRPC Web for client-side rich web apps and gogoproto for blazing-fast generated code. This talk is based on my experience building a hosted, Prometheus-based monitoring service, which itself used gRPC for all intra-server communication and runs on Kubernetes. There’ll be live coding, real world examples and discussion of the benefits (and drawbacks) of gRPC.

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