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Enterprise API Management

You're reading from  Enterprise API Management

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781787284432
Pages 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Luis Weir Luis Weir
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gRPC

gRPC is a modern RPC protocol that runs on top of HTTP/2. It was created by Google and open-sourced in 2015 as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.

The gRPC project is accessible through the official website:
https://grpc.io
Figure 6.15: The gRPC logo

gRPC has its origins in a proprietary protocol called Stubby, a multi-language RPC framework also developed by Google around 2001 with the aim of addressing scaling and communication challenges when building loosely coupled distributed systems.

Stubby, at its core, consisted of an RPC layer capable of handling Internet-scale volumes (up to the billions of requests per second). When open-sourced in 2015 under the name gRPC, the protocol maintained many of its original characteristics, with the difference that it now embraced emerging and complementary open standards such as HTTP/2.

As the protocol is HTTP/2...

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