Has anyone tried to build an RPC framework like gRPC ?

[alan]

We are going to have a webcast with one of the principle engineers from Square on gRPC - a microservices framework from Google. I've got a couple of questions to the community ?

1. Has any of you tried to build / customize your own API or webservices stack like Google or Twitter (e.g. Finangle)

2. Is there specific questions you'd like to see addressed during the webcast ?

Register for the webcast

https://pages.apigee.com/2016-03-16-Webcast-Microservices-at-Square-reg.html

[#2]

Hi, this was a very interesting talk that I couldn't unfortunately follow live.

I have an important question however that has not been tackled:

How does gRPC fit into the async/ event driven/ pub-sub architecture model which is

in many cases preferable in my experience.

Also your guest mentions in the first slides that Square is using an asynchronous communication model.

Unfortunately, he does not explain how that goes together with gRPC.

I know that gRPC can do streaming and bi-directional communication but you still require a broker/ bus or something to do use this effectively.

Can you shed some light on this aspect?