grpc-slides/docs/practical_grpc.md

A practical guide on gRPC

Victor Martinez

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Contents

• Ingredients to build a gRPC API
• Defining our API with Protocol Buffers
  • Defining a request
  • Defining a response
  • About backwards compatibility
  • Defining a service
• Generate a Rust library
  • Manual project setup
  • Build script
  • Exposing a library
  • Supporting multiple tonic versions
• CI/CD
  • The Buf tool
  • Checking for breaking changes
  • How to release

• Implementing a gRPC service
  • Implementing the service trait
  • Parsing requests
  • Error handling
• Building a gRPC server
  • Authentication
  • Tracing
  • Running our server
• How to deploy
• How to call our server
  • Creating a gRPC client
  • Authentication
  • Response handling
• How is it going so far
  • Users
  • Metrics