Posts in 2017
The gRPC Meetup Kit
Thursday, September 14, 2017 in Blog
If you have ever wanted to run an event around gRPC, but didn’t know where to start, or weren’t sure what content is available - we have released the gRPC Meetup Kit! The meetup kit includes a 15 minute presentation on the basic concepts …
gRPC-Go performance Improvements
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Blog
For past few months we’ve been working on improving gRPC-Go performance. This includes improving network utilization, optimizing CPU usage and memory allocations. Most of our recent effort has been focused around revamping gRPC-Go flow control. …
Announcing out-of-the-box support for gRPC in the Flatbuffers serialization library
Thursday, August 17, 2017 in Blog
The recent release of Flatbuffers version 1.7 introduced truly zero-copy support for gRPC out of the box. Flatbuffers is a serialization library that allows you to access serialized data without first unpacking it or allocating any additional data …
2017-08-17 Community Meeting Update
Thursday, August 17, 2017 in Blog
Next Community Meeting: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11am Pacific Time (US and Canada) General Announcements Call for Papers: CloudNativeCon CloudNativeCon gathers all CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects under a single roof. Presenters …
gRPC Load Balancing
Thursday, June 15, 2017 in Blog
This post describes various load balancing scenarios seen when deploying gRPC. If you use gRPC with multiple backends, this document is for you. A large scale gRPC deployment typically has a number of identical back-end instances, and a number of …
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 …