gRPC - MasterClass

• A code along repo for Udemy's gRPC [Golang] Masterclass course

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Description

gRPC is a RPC framework developed by Google for building high performance APIs. It's uses Protocol Buffers as the interface definition language. gRPC payloads are significantly smaller than a JSON equivalents hence faster :- low latency over the wire. A good alternative for REST API.

Concepts Explored

• Unary Streaming
• Server Streaming
• Client Streaming
• Bi-directional Streaming
• Error Handling & RPC deadlines
• Security - SSL Authentication
• File Upload - (client streaming)
• CRUD with MongoDB

TODO

• Server-side pagination with MongoDB
• Caching with Redis
• Unit Testing

Local Set Up

This code is entirely educational and definitely not production-ready

• Clone the app git clone https://github.com/vonmutinda/grpcourse.git
• Install MongoDB databasase.
• Inspect the Makefile for the various commands of interracting with the app.
• Run make server and make client on two seperate tabs.;

Technologies Used

A list of technologies used in this project:

• Golang version go1.14.6
• gRPC A RPC framework that leverages on HTTP/2 protocol which has powerful multiplexing capabilites.
• MongoDB Community Server

Resources (Further Read)

Some of the resources that I found useful Go/Golang.

• Protocol Buffers
• gRPC
• Building Microservices in Go - Nic Jackson Start Here
• The Complete gRPC Course [Protobuf, Go, Java] : An Advanced gRPC Course