From RESTful API to gRPC

From RESTful API to gRPC

Speaker: Irina Scurtu

gRPC has been around for a while now, but never gained the first-class citizen title when it came to implementing a downstream API.
It is contract-based, performant – with smaller response/request bodies, perfect for polyglot environments and supports different models – from client-server to bi-directional streaming out of the box. If we sprinkle some client-side load balancing, transient fault-handling and the ability of exposing a gRPC service also as a HTTP API, we might the perfect point-to-point communication mechanism.

In this 1 day workshop you will learn the how and the whys and understand where gRPC fits in the .NET APIs ecosystem.

Topics covered:

– What gRPC is and how it fits in an API context
– working with proto files, most common scenarios
– the 4 gRPC types
– Implementing and consuming gRPC services
– Documenting and exposing gRPC endpoints
– Client-side load balancing
– gRPC transcoding
– transient fault-handling

Prerequisites

Attendees will require a laptop with the latest version on .NET SDK and their editor/IDE of choice:

– Visuals Studio 2022
– VS Code