gRPC-go

Golang BCN - July '16

@gonzaloserrano

RPC

In distributed computing a remote procedure call (RPC) is when a computer program causes a procedure to execute in another address space which is coded as if it were a local procedure call.

gRPC

a modern, open source remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run anywhere.

features

  • BSD licensed ⇒ OSS
  • HTTP/2 based ⇒ streams, mux...
  • easy ⇒ IDL based, codegen
  • highly performant & scalable
  • implementations ⇒ C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, Go, C#, Node.js, PHP.
  • commitment ⇒ Google's public services as gRPC

HTTP/2 capabilities

  • bidirectional streaming ⇒ req/resp, s2c, c2s
  • flow control ⇒ quotas
  • header compression ⇒ bandwidth save
  • single TCP connection ⇒ multiplexing, lower lantency

protocol buffers v3

language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data

  • IDL: interface definition language
  • gRPC service definition
  • codegen
  • binary serialization

example

syntax = "proto3";

package clock;

service Clock {
  rpc WhatTimeIsIt(ClockRequest) returns (stream ClockResponse);
}

message ClockRequest {
  string name = 1;
}

message ClockResponse {
  string message = 1;
}

demo

protobufs +

go server +

PHP node go client

Thanks!

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