This post describes various load balancing scenarios seen when deploying gRPC. If you use gRPC with multiple backends, this document is for you.

A large scale gRPC deployment typically has a number of identical back-end instances, and a number of clients. Each server has a certain capacity. Load balancing is used for distributing the load from clients optimally across available servers.

Our guest post today comes from Brian Hardock, a software engineer from Deis working on the Helm project.

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. Helm provides its users with a customizable mechanism for managing distributed applications and controlling their deployment.

I have the good fortune to be a member of the phenomenal open-source Kubernetes Helm community serving as a core contributor. My first day working with the Helm team was spent prototyping the architecture for the next generation of Helm. By the end of that day, we had procured the preliminary RPC protocol data model used to enable communication between Helm and its in-cluster server component, Tiller.

Our guest post today comes from Miguel Mendez of Yik Yak.

This post was originally a part of the Yik Yak Engineering Blog which focused on sharing the lessons learned as we evolved Yik Yak from early-stage startup code running in Amazon Web Services to an eventual incremental rewrite, re-architecture, and live-migration to Google Cloud Platform.

In our previous blog post we gave an overview of our migration to Google Cloud Platform from Amazon Web Services. In this post we will drill down into the role that gRPC and grpc-gateway played in that migration and share some lessons which we picked up along the way.

gRPC makes it easier to build high-performance microservices by providing generated service entrypoints in a variety of different languages. Bazel complements these efforts with a capable and fast polyglot build environment.

rules_protobuf extends bazel and makes it easier develop gRPC services.

Our guest post today comes from Robert Sayre and Melinda Lu of VSCO.

Founded in 2011, VSCO is a community for expression—empowering people to create, discover and connect through images and words. VSCO is in the process of migrating their stack to gRPC.