Posts in 2016
gRPC Project is now 1.0 and ready for production deployments
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 in Blog
Today, the gRPC project has reached a significant milestone with its 1.0 release. Languages moving to 1.0 include C++, Java, Go, Node, Ruby, Python and C# across Linux, Windows, and Mac. Objective-C and Android Java support on iOS and Android is also …
Mobile Benchmarks
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Blog
As gRPC has become a better and faster RPC framework, we’ve consistently gotten the question, “How much faster is gRPC?” We already have comprehensive server-side benchmarks, but we don’t have mobile benchmarks. Benchmarking a …
gRPC with REST and Open APIs
Monday, May 09, 2016 in Blog
Our guest post today comes from Brandon Phillips of CoreOS. CoreOS builds open source projects and products for Linux Containers. Their flagship product for consensus and discovery etcd and their container engine rkt are early adopters of gRPC. One …
gRPC - now with easy installation
Monday, April 04, 2016 in Blog
Today we are happy to provide an update that significantly simplifies the getting started experience for gRPC. For most languages, the gRPC runtime can now be installed in a single step via native package managers such as npm for Node.js, gem for …
Google Cloud PubSub - with the power of gRPC!
Thursday, March 24, 2016 in Blog
Google Cloud PubSub is Google’s scalable real-time messaging service that lets users send and receive messages between independent applications. It’s an important part of Google Cloud Platform’s big data offering, and is used by …
Posts in 2015
gRPC releases Beta, opening door for use in production environments
Monday, October 26, 2015 in Blog
The gRPC team is excited to announce the immediate availability of gRPC Beta. This release marks an important point in API stability and going forward most API changes are expected to be additive in nature. This milestone opens the door for gRPC use …
gRPC Motivation and Design Principles
Tuesday, September 08, 2015 in Blog
Motivation Google has been using a single general-purpose RPC infrastructure called Stubby to connect the large number of microservices running within and across our data centers for over a decade. Our internal systems have long embraced the …