Explore a conference talk that delves into communicating with gRPC services through HTTP/1-compatible reverse proxies. Learn about the challenges of exposing gRPC servers on the internet and discover an approach that requires minimal changes to client and server code while ensuring maximum compatibility. Examine a Go library implementing this technique, complete with code examples and a live demonstration. Gain insights into the differences between HTTP/2 and HTTP/1, automatic JSON-RPC web downgrading, and potential future developments in this area.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Rest APIs
HTTP2 vs HTTP1
GRPC Web
Automatic jpc web downgrading
Open source library
Future work
Taught by
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]