You're reading from Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot Design highly scalable and maintainable APIs with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and the reactive paradigm

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562479

Length 582 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

GraphQL

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Sourabh Sharma

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: RESTful Web Services

2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs

4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation

5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs

6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design

7. Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment

8. Chapter 6: Security (Authorization and Authentication)

9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface

10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs

11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services

12. Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring

13. Chapter 10: gRPC Fundamentals

14. Chapter 11: gRPC-based API Development and Testing

15. Chapter 12: Logging and Tracing

16. Section 4: GraphQL

17. Chapter 13: GraphQL Fundamentals

18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing

19. Assessments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 10: gRPC Fundamentals

gRPC is an open source framework for general-purpose Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) across a network. RPC allows a remote procedure (hosted on a different machine) to call as if it is calling a local procedure in connected systems without coding the remote interaction details. RPC has a constant meaning in gRPC abbreviation. It seems logical that the g in gRPC would refer to Google because it was initially developed there. But the meaning of the g has changed with every release. For its first release, version 1.0, the g in gRPC stood for gRPC itself. That is, in version 1, it stands for gRPC Remote Procedure Call. You are going to use gRPC version 1.37, in which the g stands for gilded. Therefore, you can refer to gRPC as gilded Remote Procedure Call (for version 1.37). You can find out all the meanings of the g for different versions at https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/g_stands_for.md.