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- Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks
I can give an n=1 anecdote here: the dns resolver used to have hard-coded caching which meant that it would be unresponsive to pod updates, and cause mini 30s outages.
The code in question was: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/b597a8e1d0ce3f63ef8a7b6...
That meant that deploying a service which drained in less than 30s would have a little mini-outage for that service until the in-process DNS cache expired, with of course no way to configure it.
Kuberesolver streams updates, and thus lets clients talk to new pods almost immediately.
I think things are a little better now, but based on my reading of https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/12295, it looks like the dns resolver still might not resolve new pod names quickly in some cases.
- The Surprising gRPC Client Bottleneck in Low-Latency Networks
That seems to work, thank you!
Now latency is just RTT + server time + payloadsize/bandwidth, not multiple times RTT: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/8436#issuecomment-311...
I was not aware of this setting, it's pretty unfortunate this is a system-level setting that can't be overridden on application layer, and the idle timeout can't be changed either. Will have to figure out how to safely make this change on the k8s service this is affecting...
- From Legacy Rest to GPC - Vanguard-Go ⚔️
Efficiency and Code Generation: Unlike traditional approaches like gRPC-Gateway, Vanguard operates efficiently within Go servers, compatible with various servers such as Connect and gRPC. It doesn't rely on extensive code generation, eliminating the need for additional code generation steps. This flexibility ensures that your code can adapt dynamically, loading service definitions from configuration, schema registries, or via gRPC Server Reflection, making it a perfect fit for proxies without the hassle of recompilation and redeployment each time an RPC service schema changes.
- How to Call gRPC Methods Dynamically in Go
Typically, services are registered with a gRPC server immediately after creation, as shown in the helloworld example provided by grpc team:
- xAI Grok API Beta
There's no Remote Procedure Call built into the protocol. JsonRPC is also not RPC in itself.
It's like GraphQL with resolvers.
They have you imagine it's a procedure, but you can ignore that.
Here's the golang gRPC Hello World where the equivalent of a resolver in GraphQL replies directly w/o need for a procedure by that name. https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/examples/hellowo...
- Consistent Hashing: An Overview and Implementation in Golang
grpc-go: go get -u google.golang.org/grpc
- Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
The reflection service is open-sourced (at least for some sdks):
* https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/Documentation/se...
* https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/grpc/g...
- gRPC Name Resolution & Load Balancing on Kubernetes: Everything you need to know (and probably a bit more)
We’re hoping to make this rate at least optional via this pull request but as the time of writing this blog, it’s nothing we can do to circle our way around it.
- Full Stack Forays with Go and gRPC
First, I started with gRPC’s recommended starter repository for learning gRPC, their **helloworld **example, which is a part of the official gRPC repository.
- Tools besides Go for a newbie
IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
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