Ruby and gRPC

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Company splits a growing Rails monolith into separate services (content, users, messaging, payments) and connects them with gRPC with Protocol Buffers while keeping the client-facing API as BFF JSON front-end. Protos generate Ruby (and Go) stubs; local benchmarks show binary protobuf calls slightly faster than existing JSON endpoints. Challenges: proto-driven schema is strict so small experiments need regeneration, sparse tooling and tracing support, and initial deployments run as Kubernetes internal cluster services over insecure channels pending SSL setup.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:07Monolith vs Microservices
3. 10:18What is gRPC
4. 14:40gRPC Code
5. 21:11What did I learn
6. 27:35Questions

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