Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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gRPC is a high performance Remote Procedure Call framework that can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication.

The main benefits of gRPC are:
Modern, high-performance, lightweight RPC framework.
Contract-first API development, using Protocol Buffers by default, allowing for language agnostic implementations.
Tooling available for many languages to generate strongly-typed servers and clients.
Supports client, server, and bi-directional streaming calls.
Reduced network usage with Protobuf binary serialization.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:19 What is gRPC
02:40 Why is gRPC
03:54 Other RPC frameworks
06:06 Stubby the Genesis of gRPC
08:29 gRPC the CNCF Incubation Project
10:15 When to use gRPC
11:30 Who is using gRPC
12:14 Advantages of HTTP/2
14:09 Protocol Buffers
17:35 Proto Document - Define your Service
23:46 gRPC Performance
31:33 HTTP/2 Multiplexing
33:51 HTTP/2 Full Duplex
34:15 HTTP/2 Header Compression
35:33 QUIC
38:49 gRPC Architecture