TL;DR Always set a deadline. This post explains why we recommend being deliberate about setting deadlines, with useful code snippets to show you how.

If you have ever wanted to run an event around gRPC, but didn’t know where to start, or wasn’t sure what content is available - we have released the gRPC Meetup Kit!

For past few months we’ve been working on improving gRPC-Go performance. This includes improving network utilization, optimizing CPU usage and memory allocations. Most of our recent effort has been focused around revamping gRPC-Go flow control. After several optimizations and new features we’ve been able to improve quite significantly, especially on high-latency networks. We expect users that are working with high-latency networks and large messages to see an order of magnitude performance gain. Benchmark results at the end.

This blog summarizes the work we have done so far (in chronological order) to improve performance and lays out our near-future plans.

The recent release of Flatbuffers version 1.7 introduced truly zero-copy support for gRPC out of the box.

Flatbuffers is a serialization library that allows you to access serialized data without first unpacking it or allocating any additional data structures. It was originally designed for games and other resource constrained applications, but is now finding more general use, both by teams within Google and in other companies such as Netflix and Facebook.

Next Community Meeting: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11am Pacific Time (US and Canada)