Microservices with gRPC [Java + Spring Boot + Protobuf]

gRPC is one of the hottest technologies in the recent years from Google for designing highly performant and scalable APIs for your Microservices. By using gRPC, you can have 10X performance compared to traditional REST based microservices communication. It is very very fast!

It allows us to choose different types of APIs depending on our use case which is not possible with REST. One of the biggest challenge in Microservices design is inter–services communication. Most of the developers use REST as it is general–purpose. But It has a lot of challenges. We would be learning how to solve the common problems with REST by using gRPC.

By the end of this course, You would be comfortable with,

Microservices development with gRPC

gRPC & all the RPC types

Unary API

Client Streaming API

Server Streaming API

Bidirectional Streaming API

Snake & Ladder Game development using Bidirectional Streaming

Protocol Buffers / Protobuf from scratch

Google’s language neutral & platform neutral for serializing/desrializing structured data.

Load Balancing

gRPC uses HTTP2 – with the persistent connection to the back end. There are challenges in balancing the load. This section talks in details about them.

Authentication

How to pass the user session token

How to pass the client service token