google.cloud VS gRPC

Compare google.cloud vs gRPC and see what are their differences.

google.cloud

GCP Ansible Collection https://galaxy.ansible.com/google/cloud (by ansible-collections)

gRPC

The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#) (by grpc)
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google.cloud gRPC
71 201
94 40,733
- 0.9%
7.3 9.9
about 1 month ago about 3 hours ago
Python C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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google.cloud

Posts with mentions or reviews of google.cloud. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
  • Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down
    2 projects | /r/Games | 10 Mar 2023
    If you're talking general cloud services, Google still does plenty of that. Stadia was being turned into a specific streaming thing that's now also dead, but that's separate from the rest of their cloud stuff.
  • How Does Edge Computing Reduce Latency For End Users?
    1 project | /r/viralssnewss | 10 Mar 2023
    Cloud Services: Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offer edge computing services that make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing devices. These services provide tools and platforms that simplify edge computing development and deployment, reducing the time and cost required to develop and deploy edge computing solutions.
  • Day 0 - Creating Your Own Server - with Google Cloud Platform Free Tier
    1 project | /r/linuxupskillchallenge | 5 Mar 2023
    These instruction will walk you through using Google Cloud "Free Tier" (https://cloud.google.com) as your VPS hosting provider. They are rated highly, with a very simple and slick interface. Although we'll be using the Free Tier, be warned that you will need to provide valid credit card information. (Of course, if you have a strong reason to use another provider, then by all means do so, but be sure to choose Ubuntu Server 20.04)
  • Largest Data Centers in France Based on Consumption and Surface
    1 project | /r/datacenter | 3 Mar 2023
    PAR 7 is one of the data camps Interxion has in France, and at the same time the newest. PAR7 is also known for its multiple collaboration with the largest cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
  • Deploying a MERN App to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with CI/CD
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Feb 2023
    If you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably heard of AWS. It is an abbreviation for Amazon Web Services. AWS (by Amazon) offers a wide range of cloud computing services, such as computing, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, networking, mobile, developer tools, security, and enterprise applications. for all of your requirements, eliminating the need for you to set up your own servers. It provides a flexible and scalable infrastructure that can be tailored to each user's unique requirements, and it is widely regarded as one of the leading cloud platforms available today. Google Cloud (by Google) and Azure (by Microsoft) are both major competitors to AWS.
  • 2023 Development Tool Map
    20 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2023
    https://cloud.google.com/docs/overview
  • Vercel vs Netlify: Battle of the Jamstack Giants
    6 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2023
    Netlify and Vercel are multi-cloud platforms, meaning they equally employ GCP and AWS for their infrastructure.
  • would anyone like to join my hypixel smp (mc 1.19.3)
    1 project | /r/teenagers | 13 Feb 2023
  • FREE GOOGLE CLOUD RDP FOR 1 YEAR | HQ GUIDE + FOREVER WORKING
    1 project | /r/make_money_online_vip | 13 Feb 2023
    1) Create your Google account. If you're using a CC/VCC with a name set, I'd recommend you fill the Name and Surname fields with the ones on the CC. 2) Proceed to https://cloud.google.com and sign up for the 365 day trial. 3) Use your CC/VCC to set up the trial. No charges to your CC/VCC will be made. 4) Create a new VPS in Compute Engine => VM Instances. 5) Done! You now have a free VPS. You can set any configuration and location you'd like. Can be used again only when the old account's trial expires.
  • Microsoft announces new A.I.-powered Bing homepage that you can chat with
    2 projects | /r/stocks | 7 Feb 2023

gRPC

Posts with mentions or reviews of gRPC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • Golang: out-of-box backpressure handling with gRPC, proven by a Grafana dashboard
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    gRPC, built on HTTP/2, inherently supports flow control. The server can push updates, but it must also respect flow control signals from the client, ensuring that it doesn't send data faster than what the client can handle.
  • Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
    Yes, grpc_cli tool uses essentially the same mechanism except implemented as a grpc service rather than as a stubby service. The basic principle of both is implementing the C++ proto library's DescriptorDatabase interface with cached recursive queries of (usually) the server's compiled in FileDescriptorProtos.

    See also https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/server-reflecti...

    The primary difference between what grpc does and what stubby does is that grpc uses a stream to ensure that the reflection requests all go to the same server to avoid incompatible version skew and duplicate proto transmissions. With that said, in practice version skew is rarely a problem for grpc_cli style "issue a single RPC" usecases: even if requests do go to two or more different versions of a binary that might have incompatible proto graphs, it is very common for the request and response and RPC to all be in the same proto file so you only need to make one RPC in the first place unless you're using an extension mechanism like proto2 extensions or google.protobuf.Any.

  • Delving Deeper: Enriching Microservices with Golang with CloudWeGo
    7 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    While gRPC and Apache Thrift have served the microservice architecture well, CloudWeGo's advanced features and performance metrics set it apart as a promising open source solution for the future.
  • gRPC Name Resolution & Load Balancing on Kubernetes: Everything you need to know (and probably a bit more)
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    The loadBalancingConfig is what we use in order to decide which policy to go for (round_robin in this case). This JSON representation is based on a protobuf message, then why does the name resolver returns it in the JSON format? The main reason is that loadBalancingConfig is a oneof field inside the proto message and so it can not contain values unknown to the gRPC if used in the proto format. The JSON representation does not have this requirement so we can use a custom loadBalancingConfig .
  • Dart on the Server: Exploring Server-Side Dart Technologies in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    The Dart implementation of gRPC which puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. It's built and maintained by the Dart team. gRPC is a high-performance RPC (remote procedure call) framework that is optimized for efficient data transfer.
  • Usando Spring Boot RestClient
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
  • How to Build & Deploy Scalable Microservices with NodeJS, TypeScript and Docker || A Comprehesive Guide
    13 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2024
    gRPC is a high-performance, open-source RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework initially developed by Google. It uses Protocol Buffers for serialization and supports bidirectional streaming.
  • Actual SSH over HTTPS
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2023
    In general, tunneling through HTTP2 turns out to be a great choice. There is a RPC protocol built on top of HTTP2: gRPC[1].

    This is because HTTP2 is great at exploiting a TCP connection to transmit and receive multiple data structures concurrently - multiplexing.

    There may not be a reason to use HTTP3 however, as QUIC already provides multiplexing.

    I expect that in the future most communications will be over encrypted HTTP2 and QUIC simply because middleware creators can not resist to discriminate.

    [1] <https://grpc.io>

  • Why gRPC is not natively supported by Browsers
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Dec 2023
    Even in the https://grpc.io blog says this
  • SGSG (Svelte + Go + SQLite + gRPC) - open source application
    5 projects | /r/sveltejs | 6 Dec 2023
    gRPC

What are some alternatives?

When comparing google.cloud and gRPC you can also consider the following projects:

apisix-dashboard - Dashboard for Apache APISIX

ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

helm-charts - Helm Charts published by Bedag Informatik AG

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

nitric - Nitric is a multi-language framework for cloud applications with infrastructure from code.

Cap'n Proto - Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

vercel - Develop. Preview. Ship.

zeroRPC - zerorpc for python

opentelemetry-helm-charts - OpenTelemetry Helm Charts

rpclib - rpclib is a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library

unified-observability-k8s-kubecon - Unified Observability for Kubernetes at KubeCon NA '22

nanomsg - nanomsg library