Richard Belleville works at Google on gRPC, a high-performance, universal RPC framework. Richard used gRPC before joining Google to work on it; he talks to the hosts about its history and derivation from Google’s internal Stubby, how it works, and how it differs from other RPC and messaging systems.

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Links from the interview

gRPC
- What is gRPC?
- gRPC Basics meetup video: a recent presentation by Richard at the Orchestructure meetup
- RPC vs messaging
- What does the G stand for?
NASA Robotic Mining Challenge
Protocol Buffers
Stubby became gRPC
Abseil: an open source collection of C++ libraries drawn from the most fundamental pieces of Google’s internal codebase
Chubby lock services (the inspiration for etcd)
Bidirectional streaming
- Head-of-line blocking
Polling engines
Swagger/OpenAPI
gRPC + JSON by Carl Mastrangelo
HTTP/2
Supported languages
gRPC Core
gRPC-web
- HTTP/2 trailers
Users
Graduating the CNCF
Richard Belleville on Twitter

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