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Re:Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with en... by sudhirj on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:37PM (#24944793)
If you're communicating between two systems, gRPC has a few benefits: * keeps a socket open between them (HTTP/2) and puts all your method calls on that connection. So you don't have to set up connections on each call or handle your own pooling. * comes with builtin fast (de &)serialization using protobuf. * uses a definition language to generate SDKs for a whole bunch of languages. * makes testing super easy because your testing team, if you have a separate one, can make an SDK in their preferred language and write tests.

Much better developer experience and performance writing HTTP services and code to call them.

Cons are * not being able to use Postman / firebug, nothing on the wire is human-readable * load balancer support is sketchy because of the use of HTTP trailers and full path HTTP/2. That's why AWS ALB supporting it is news. * The auth story isn't very clear. Do you use the out of band setup or add tokens in every single RPC?

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Re:Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with en... by q3k on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:47PM (#24944884)
> The auth story isn't very clear. Do you use the out of band setup or add tokens in every single RPC?

I think it's actually quite well documented. [1]

You can have out-of-band authentication data per-connection ('per-channel') and per-RPC ('per-call'). SSL certificates can be used per-connection, while token-based authentication (eg. bearer tokens, or anything else that can fit in metadata) can be either.

[1] https://grpc.io/docs/guides/auth/

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Re:Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with en... by coder543 on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:19PM (#24945289)
If you want the list items to render on separate lines, you need to either add an extra newline between list items, or indent the list items by 4 spaces.
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