Grpc

Building API with gRPC using ProtoBuf – Part 3

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the previous blog, we discussed the Protocol buffers. How do they work? How to define the protobuf and compile it? Whats happens when we compile our protobuf file? How Protocol buffers were designed to solve many problems? Also how to generate Java or Scala code? In order to continue our series, we will try to create a small basic application with simple client requests Continue Reading

Akka-gRPC

Reading Time: 3 minutes Akka gRPC provides support for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams and Akka Http. Features of Akka-gRPC A generator, that starts from a protobuf service definitions, for: Model classes The service API as a Scala trait using Akka Stream Sources On the server side code to create an Akka HTTP route based on your implementation of the service On the client side, a client for the Continue Reading

Demystifying gRPC: A brief history of Remote execution.

Reading Time: 6 minutes It has been a year since I’ve been exploring the gRPC framework. Most of the time, I’ve written web services in gRPC and glued them together with their implementations. Most of the time without having to explore it why and how it came into the light?  I find people relating the gRPC framework to the “Microservices” world. If you dig on the Internet, you can Continue Reading