Abstract
Grpc is known as an “Rpc framework”. What is less known is how it internally works and the fact that a lot of “advanced features” such as service discovery, retries, tracing are really easy to enable in the Go implementation. In this talk I will describe this less known features of Grpc. Inter-process communication faces many challenges in nowadays distributed systems. Service discovery, retries, and such need to be addressed in order to cover all the needs of a distributed scenario. Grpc provides a valid alternative to rest calls, essentially being an easy to use cross language rpc framework. On top of that, Go has proved itself to be a suitable language for those kind of applications. What it is less know is the fact that it is really easy to extend the Grpc Go implementation with features such as authentication, service discovery, tracing, retry mechanisms and more. During this talk I will explain how Gprc works, how to use it, and then will show how to build powerful interprocess communication by leveraging Grpc full potential. The audience will walk away with a solid understanding of how Grpc internally works and several useful techniques for taking full advantage of its powerful but lesser known features.
