Get a comprehensive understanding of gRPC fundamentals through real-world examples. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this high-performance interprocess communication protocol is capable of connecting polyglot services in microservices architecture, while providing a rich framework for defining service contracts and data types.

Complete with hands-on examples written in Go, Java, Node, and Python, this book also covers the essential techniques and best practices to use gRPC in production systems. Authors Kasun Indrasiri and Danesh Kuruppu discuss the importance of gRPC in the context of microservices development.

Kasun Indrasiri is the director of Integration Architecture at WSO2 and an architect with over nine years of experience in Enterprise Integration and Microservice. He has authored ‘Microservices for Enterprise’ (Apress: Released in 2018) and ‘Beginning WSO2 ESB’ (Apress - Released in 2017) books.

Kasun is the product manager of WSO2 ESB/EI and a committer/PMC member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is a speaker in upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2019 in San Jose and also has spoken in many microservices meetups in the Bay area and several WSO2 conferences in San Francisco, London and Barcelona.

He has founded the “Silicon Valley Microservice, APIs and Integration" Meetup, which is a vendor-neutral microservices meetup in the San Francisco Bay area.

Danesh Kuruppu is Associate Technical Lead at WSO2 and with over five years of experience in Enterprise Integration and Microservices technologies. Danesh is the main designer and developer of adding gRPC support for the open source cloud-native programming language, Ballerina (ballerina.io). He is part of the gRPC community and a key contributor to WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J - https://github.com/wso2/msf4j) which is a lightweight high-performance framework for developing & running microservices. Apart from that, he is an expert in SOA governance.