Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 12.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What are three benefits of gRPC that make it a good choice for implementing services?
2. How are contracts defined in gRPC?
3. Which of the following .NET types require extensions to be imported: int, double, and DateTime?
4. Why should you set a deadline when calling a gRPC method?
5. What are the benefits of enabling gRPC JSON transcoding to a gRPC service hosted in ASP.NET Core?

Exercise 12.2 – Explore topics

Use the links on the following page to learn more detail about the topics covered in this chapter:

https://github.com/markjprice/apps-services-net7/blob/main/book-links.md#chapter-12---building-efficient-microservices-using-grpc