Keynote: State of gRPC
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Reports gRPC powers large deployments (LinkedIn migrated 50,000 endpoints) and runs inside major projects like Kubernetes and containerd, claiming wide enterprise use by Cisco, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit. Uses Protocol Buffers over HTTP/2 for low-latency, high-throughput microservices and ML pipelines; TensorFlow and NVIDIA Triton use gRPC for inference. Roadmap includes a proxyless service mesh approach to remove sidecars and a gRPC Rust preview (with Tonic) plus new MCP and A2A protocols for AI agent interoperability.
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