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