Richard Belleville works at Google on gRPC, a high-performance, universal RPC framework. Richard used gRPC before joining Google to work on it; he talks to the hosts about its history and derivation from Google’s internal Stubby, how it works, and how it differs from other RPC and messaging systems.
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Chatter of the week

Castlevania series 3 on Netflix

Discussed in Episode 27


Bad video game adaptations

Pac-Man (TV series)
Super Mario Bros (film)
Doom (film)


Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - 42nd anniversary

Upcoming Hulu TV series



News of the week

Istio 1.5:

Release announcement
2020 roadmap
Extensibility through WebAssembly in Envoy and the Proxy-Wasm ABI
Solo.io’s WebAssemblyHub


Google Cloud’s new strategy for the telecommunications industry
Managed Kubernetes pricing comparison
HPE Container Platform is Generally Available
Contour 1.2 and Velero 1.3
Case studies:

HelloFresh running Istio in production
Kudos on moving to Kubernetes


A survey of Istio’s network security features by Jack Leadford at NCC Group
TIKV security audit
Adrian Colyer looks at the Firecracker paper
EKS adds AWS Encryption Provider
2019 CNCF Survey results
Sidecar containers not in 1.19 after all
KubeCon EU not on in Mar/Apr after all

Links from the interview

gRPC

What is gRPC?
gRPC Basics meetup video: a recent presentation by Richard at the Orchestructure meetup
RPC vs messaging
What does the G stand for?


NASA Robotic Mining Challenge
Protocol Buffers
Stubby became gRPC
Abseil: an open source collection of C++ libraries drawn from the most fundamental pieces of Google’s internal codebase
Chubby lock services (the inspiration for etcd)
Bidirectional streaming

Head-of-line blocking


Polling engines
Swagger/OpenAPI
gRPC + JSON by Carl Mastrangelo
HTTP/2
Supported languages
gRPC Core
gRPC-web

HTTP/2 trailers


Users
Graduating the CNCF
Richard Belleville on Twitter