A Quick Introduction to gRPC and Related Tools

About this episode

Zachary Fanelle introduces gRPC and its integration into Kubernetes workflows.

In this month's episode Sr. Solution Architect at Mirantis, Zachary Fanelle, will walk you through the basics for getting started with gRPC and how to easily start integrating it into your Kubernetes workflows. He will cover HTTP and REST APIs, as well as how these web technologies prompted Google to create gRPC in the first place. You will gain practical knowledge about what gPRC is, why it is leveraged by many developers in many use cases, and how it is supported in Kubernetes as of K8s ver...

People in this episode

Host: Zachary Fanelle

Topics covered

• gRPC
• Kubernetes
• APIs
• web technologies
• integration

Keywords

• gRPC
• Kubernetes
• HTTP
• REST APIs
• integration
• developers
• web technologies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mirantis, Google

Products: gRPC, Kubernetes, HTTP, REST APIs

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