Authentication
An overview of gRPC authentication, including built-in auth mechanisms, and how to plug in your own authentication systems.
The documentation covers the following techniques:
An overview of gRPC authentication, including built-in auth mechanisms, and how to plug in your own authentication systems.
gRPC is designed to support high-performance open-source RPCs in many languages. This page describes performance benchmarking tools, scenarios considered by tests, and the testing infrastructure.
Explains how and when to cancel RPCs.
How to compress the data sent over the wire while using gRPC.
Explains how custom load balancing policies can help optimize load balancing under unique circumstances.
Explains how deadlines can be used to effectively deal with unreliable backends.
How gRPC deals with errors, and gRPC error codes.
Explains what flow control is and how you can manually control it.
How to use HTTP/2 PING-based keepalives in gRPC.
A user guide of both general and language-specific best practices to improve performance.
Explains how to configure RPCs to wait for the server to be ready before sending the request.