Building Microservices with Kotlin and gRPC
summary
Claims that gRPC plus Kotlin coroutines cut boilerplate and lower infra cost at scale are demonstrated with code and a working Death Star demo: bi‑directional streaming, protobuf messages, and real async flows replace callback hell. Production‑grade pieces use gRPC over HTTP/2, compiled protobufs, and Java interop via grpc‑java, with Kotlin glue from Kotlin coroutines and community libraries like kroto‑plus. Cited scale: about 160 million users motivating the switch; demos compile and run and show clearer, suspendable flow control.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 4:12Microservices Rock!
- 11:09HTTP protocol evolution
- 19:33Task for this session
- 22:05When user destroys planet ...
- 38:55Takeaways
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