Authentication
An overview of gRPC authentication, including built-in auth mechanisms, and how to plug in your own authentication systems.
Guides
Task-oriented walkthroughs of common use cases
The documentation covers the following techniques:
Benchmarking
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.
Cancellation
Explains how and when to cancel RPCs.
Compression
How to compress the data sent over the wire while using gRPC.
Custom Load Balancing Policies
Explains how custom load balancing policies can help optimize load balancing under unique circumstances.
Deadlines
Explains how deadlines can be used to effectively deal with unreliable backends.
Error handling
How gRPC deals with errors, and gRPC error codes.
Flow Control
Explains what flow control is and how you can manually control it.
Keepalive
How to use HTTP/2 PING-based keepalives in gRPC.
Performance Best Practices
A user guide of both general and language-specific best practices to improve performance.
Wait-for-Ready
Explains how to configure RPCs to wait for the server to be ready before sending the request.
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