Where gRPC fits in the API ecosystem

Welcome

gRPC vs WCF

Who is this course for and prerequisites

What will you learn in this course

What is gRPC

Introduction to Protocol Buffers

When to use gRPC

gRPC vs RESTful APIs

Scalar types

What is a .proto file

Syntax

Enums

Well-known types

Nullable types

OneOf

Any

Creating your first gRPC project

Running the default template project

Analyzing the project structure

Code generation

gRPC types

Language constructs

Defining a gRPC service

Unary Type

Implementing a gRPC service

Server Streaming Type

Client Streaming Type

Bi-Directional Streaming Type

What is a Channel and how can we use it

Creating a channel

Creating & configuring a gRPC client project

Configuring a channel

Consuming a Unary Type method

Creating a client

Consuming a Client Streaming method

Consuming a Server Streaming method

Setting call deadlines

Consuming a Bi-Directional Streaming method

Sending cancelation requests

HTTP Request and Response in the context of gRPC

Metadata

gRPC status codes

Consuming gRPC from an MVC app

Trailers

Treating and working with Exceptions

Implementing client interceptors

Introducing interceptors

Client interceptors

Implementing server interceptors

Middlewares vs Interceptors

Server interceptors

Enabling compression

Client side load balancing

Choosing another policy

Avoiding compression

Transient fault handling in gRPC

Implementing a retry policy

Security levels

Writing integration tests

Writing unit tests

Using Postman

Adding authentication and authorization to the server

Provide call credentials in the client application

Discovering services with Reflection

Health checks

Implementing transcoding

Conclusion

grpc-web

Code-first gRPC