InRhythm Spring Quarterly Summit: Cloud Native Applications Workshop

Summary

In this workshop we will introduce you to gRPC, which is Google’s take on Remote Procedural Calls. You will learn a brief history of gRPC and Protocol Buffers. Google and other companies use gRPC to serialize data to binary which results in smaller data packets. In our presentation portion we will go over some of the pros and cons of using gRPC for your API calls.

In our hands-on workshop portion you will create a simple application to manage notes powered by Java running in a Docker container. We will walk you through creating a series of CRUD APIs in Java using gRPC to send/receive data packets, translate those into objects, and store them in a database.

Why gRPC?

“gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services.” – grpc.io