Keynote: State of gRPC
summary
Story of how gRPC consolidates Google’s internal Stubby variants into one open project that runs over HTTP to traverse firewalls and is developed on GitHub so external contributions can land. It targets interoperability with 10+ languages and maintains four native stacks C-core Java Python Go, accumulates production users like Spotify, avoids sales or PMs, and survives 12 years of active evolution. The claim: pragmatic engineering choices led to broad adoption and continued community maintenance.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 0:45Origins of gRPC project
- 3:15Open source vision for gRPC
- 6:31HTTP and multi-language support
- 7:57gRPC's lasting impact and future
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