gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0

Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by bagder on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:07PM (#12345951)

It was not ignored, it was very much made on purpose because of a certain popular programming language not having unsigned 32 bit variables...

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Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by kbenson on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:12PM (#12346007)

Well, that's half of the downside presented, the other half is that it's split be server/client connections. I assume this was done because it simplifies the tracking of the next stream identifier, because you can just keep a counter and increment, rather than a table of used streams to check a new random identifier against?

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Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by bagder on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:15PM (#12346039)

Correct, something that was used already in SPDY and proved to be very handy and convenient so it was kept in HTTP/2.

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Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by bagder on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:18PM (#12346061)

BTW, recent data shows that Firefox does (on median) about 8 requests per HTTP/2 connection, up from slightly more than 1 on HTTP/1.1

So, if we ever close a connection from having reached a billion streams we are in a very very good position.

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Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by spullara on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:40PM (#12346292)

Doubling the number of them doesn't make it more right.

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Re:gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 by vamega on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:06PM (#12347081)

Are you talking about Java?

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