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Efficient Service Communication with gRPC
Summary
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.
Bio
Petra Bierleutgeb is an independent software engineer and consultant living in Munich. She is a Scala enthusiast and interested in FP, software architecture and infrastructure. She greatly enjoys rock climbing and from time to time she writes blog posts and speaks at conferences.
About the conference
Micro Services are a new paradigm for software architecture: small services in separated processes take the place of large applications. This way monolithic architecture can be avoided, and systems are easily scalable and changeable. The microXchg conference looks at a variety of aspects of Micro Services.