Presentations
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To RPC or Not to RPC: Choosing the Right Communication Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
Thomas Bøgh Fangel presents Lunar Way’s journey of breaking up their Rails monolith into a microservice architecture focusing on the benefits changing synchronous RPC to asynchronous events.
41:01
Efficient Service Communication with gRPC
Petra Bierleutgeb takes a look at gRPC, discussing how its support for HTTP/2, protocol buffers, type-safety and others makes it an alternative to REST/JSON-based service communication.
39:39
Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
52:40
Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models, and how they used Envoy to move HTTP 1.1 services to gRPC.
40:05
gRPC: A High Performance, Modern RPC System
David Howden introduces gRPC and outlines its main strengths/weaknesses, and then recounts his experience of migrating from JSON/HTTP-based REST to gRPC, including benefits and issues encountered.
43:24
Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale
Oliver Gould discusses Finagle, a library providing a uniform model for handling failure at the communications layer, enabling Twitter to fail, safely and often.
32:26
gRPC 101 for Spring Developers
Ray Tsang discusses using gRPC's streaming API to build sophisticated real-time applications, diving into integration with Maven, Gradle, Spring Boot and RxJava.
01:00:09
Applying Reactive Programming to Existing Applications
Ben Christensen discusses the mental shift from imperative to declarative programming, working with blocking IO such as JDBC and RPC, service composition, debugging and unit testing.
