Mar 10, 2020
Richard Belleville works at Google on gRPC, a high-performance, universal RPC framework. Richard used gRPC before joining Google to work on it; he talks to the hosts about its history and derivation from Google’s internal Stubby, how it works, and how it differs from other RPC and messaging systems.
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Chatter of the week
- Castlevania series 3 on Netflix
- Bad video game adaptations
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - 42nd anniversary
News of the week
- Istio 1.5:
- Google Cloud’s new strategy for the telecommunications industry
- Managed Kubernetes pricing comparison
- HPE Container Platform is Generally Available
- Contour 1.2 and Velero 1.3
- Case studies:
- A survey of Istio’s network security features by Jack Leadford at NCC Group
- TIKV security audit
- Adrian Colyer looks at the Firecracker paper
- EKS adds AWS Encryption Provider
- 2019 CNCF Survey results
- Sidecar containers not in 1.19 after all
- KubeCon EU not on in Mar/Apr after all
Links from the interview
- gRPC
- What is gRPC?
- gRPC Basics meetup video: a recent presentation by Richard at the Orchestructure meetup
- RPC vs messaging
- What does the G stand for?
- NASA Robotic Mining Challenge
- Protocol Buffers
- Stubby became gRPC
- Abseil: an open source collection of C++ libraries drawn from the most fundamental pieces of Google’s internal codebase
- Chubby lock services (the inspiration for etcd)
- Bidirectional streaming
- Polling engines
- Swagger/OpenAPI
- gRPC + JSON by Carl Mastrangelo
- HTTP/2
- Supported languages
- gRPC Core
- gRPC-web
- Users
- Graduating the CNCF
- Richard Belleville on Twitter