Summary
In this chapter, you:
- Learned some concepts around gRPC services, how they work, and their benefits.
- Implemented a simple gRPC service.
- Implemented a gRPC service that uses an EF Core model.
- Learned how to set deadlines and read metadata sent as headers and trailers.
- Extended a gRPC service with support for being called as an HTTP service with JSON, to support clients that cannot work with gRPC natively.
In the next chapter, you will learn about SignalR, a technology for performing real-time communication between client and server.