gRPC (Remote Procedure Call) is a powerful tool for building robust and scalable communication between server applications.  It offers several advantages over traditional REST APIs, including type safety, performance optimizations, and a cleaner development experience.  In this blog post, we'll explore how to leverage gRPC with Go to establish communication between servers. We'll build a simple coffee shop example where a coffee shop client communicates with a server to manage orders.

Dennis Chiroro

Erlang

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gRPC is a powerful tool for establishing robust and scalable communication between server applications. This post explores using gRPC with Go through a practical example of a coffee shop, demonstrating how to define messages using Protocol Buffers, generate code, implement a server, and create a client. Key advantages of gRPC over REST APIs include type safety, performance optimization, and efficient handling of large data transfers through features like streaming RPCs.

gRPC fundamentals with Go

Hey! Thanks for sharing my article! I appreciate it!
Edit: there’s also a video version of this post here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPESsBfUKkc&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPESsBfUKkc&amp;feature=youtu.be</a>

Well explained, one dump question, Is it only used with micro services??