Posts in 2017
gRPC in Helm
Monday, May 15, 2017 in Blog
Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. Helm provides its users with a customizable mechanism for managing distributed applications and controlling their deployment. I have the good fortune to be a member of the phenomenal open-source Kubernetes …
Migration to Google Cloud Platform — gRPC & grpc-gateway
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 in Blog
In our previous blog post we gave an overview of our migration to Google Cloud Platform from Amazon Web Services. In this post we will drill down into the role that gRPC and grpc-gateway played in that migration and share some lessons which we picked …
Posts in 2016
Building gRPC services with bazel and rules_protobuf
Thursday, October 13, 2016 in Blog
gRPC makes it easier to build high-performance microservices by providing generated service entrypoints in a variety of different languages. Bazel complements these efforts with a capable and fast polyglot build environment. rules_protobuf extends …
gRPC at VSCO
Tuesday, September 06, 2016 in Blog
Our guest post today comes from Robert Sayre and Melinda Lu of VSCO. Founded in 2011, VSCO is a community for expression—empowering people to create, discover and connect through images and words. VSCO is in the process of migrating their stack to …
Why we have decided to move our APIs to gRPC
Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog
Vendasta started out 8 years ago as a point solution provider of products for small business. From the beginning we partnered with media companies and agencies who have armies of salespeople and existing relationships with those businesses to sell …
gRPC Project is now 1.0 and ready for production deployments
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 in Blog
Today, the gRPC project has reached a significant milestone with its 1.0 release. Languages moving to 1.0 include C++, Java, Go, Node, Ruby, Python and C# across Linux, Windows, and Mac. Objective-C and Android Java support on iOS and Android is also …
Mobile Benchmarks
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Blog
As gRPC has become a better and faster RPC framework, we’ve consistently gotten the question, “How much faster is gRPC?” We already have comprehensive server-side benchmarks, but we don’t have mobile benchmarks. Benchmarking a …
gRPC with REST and Open APIs
Monday, May 09, 2016 in Blog
Our guest post today comes from Brandon Phillips of CoreOS. CoreOS builds open source projects and products for Linux Containers. Their flagship product for consensus and discovery etcd and their container engine rkt are early adopters of gRPC. One …
gRPC - now with easy installation
Monday, April 04, 2016 in Blog
Today we are happy to provide an update that significantly simplifies the getting started experience for gRPC. For most languages, the gRPC runtime can now be installed in a single step via native package managers such as npm for Node.js, gem for …
Google Cloud PubSub - with the power of gRPC!
Thursday, March 24, 2016 in Blog
Google Cloud PubSub is Google’s scalable real-time messaging service that lets users send and receive messages between independent applications. It’s an important part of Google Cloud Platform’s big data offering, and is used by …