gRPC VS kubernetes

Compare gRPC vs kubernetes and see what are their differences.

gRPC

The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#) (by grpc)

kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management (by kubernetes)
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gRPC kubernetes
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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 2024-03-09.
  • 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>

  • SGSG (Svelte + Go + SQLite + gRPC) - open source application
    5 projects | /r/sveltejs | 6 Dec 2023
    gRPC
  • Level UP your RDBMS Productivity in GO
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023
    I have decided to use gRPC because it's a very simple protocol and it's very easy to use.
  • Create Production-Ready SDKs with Goa
    9 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2023
    Goa generates gRPC code for you. gRPC is an efficient alternative to plain HTTP, over which you can provide your API. It requires the use of protocol buffers, made by Google. Our repository already provides the protoc app for you, in completed_app/lib.

kubernetes

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubernetes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.
  • Open Source Ascendant: The Transformation of Software Development in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2024
    Open Source and Cloud Computing: A Match Made in Heaven The cloud is accelerating OSS adoption. Cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/] and Istio [https://istio.io/], both open-source projects, are revolutionizing how applications are built and deployed across cloud platforms.
  • Open source at Fastly is getting opener
    10 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2024
    Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the world’s top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read).
  • Experience Continuous Integration with Jenkins | Ansible | Artifactory | SonarQube | PHP
    8 projects | dev.to | 24 Feb 2024
    In this project, you will understand and get hands on experience around the entire concept around CI/CD from applications perspective. To fully gain real expertise around this idea, it is best to see it in action across different programming languages and from the platform perspective too. From the application perspective, we will be focusing on PHP here; there are more projects ahead that are based on Java, Node.js, .Net and Python. By the time you start working on Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes projects, you will get to see the platform perspective of CI/CD in action.
  • The 2024 Web Hosting Report
    37 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024
    The single most important development in hosting since the invention of EC2 is defined by its own 3-letter acronym: k8s. Kubernetes has won the “container orchestrator” space, becoming the default way that teams across industries are managing their compute nodes and scheduling their workloads, from data pipelines to web services.
  • The Road To Kubernetes: How Older Technologies Add Up
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
    Kubernetes was first released on September 9, 2014. This release timeline is part of what helped it gain a foothold over Docker Swarm. It was an open source version of an internal Google project. Features of container orchestration were presented in a more modular fashion along with scaling functionality. You can chose how your networking stack works, your load balancing, container runtime, and filesystem interfaces. Availability of an API allowed for more programmatic interactions with orchestration, making it tie in very well with CI/CD solutions. However, the big issue it has is complexity of setup. Putting together a Kubernetes cluster with basic functionality is certainly no easy feat.
  • Deploying flask app to Kubernetes using Minikube
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2024
    Kubernetes manages the deployment, scaling, and operation of containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Kubernetes relies on tools such as container runtimes like Docker, to run the containers.
  • Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
    If you go by version number and anything < 1.0 being not production ready, I recommend avoiding reading any of the dependency files for large software products which are often used in produciton, they might cause you some concern...

    https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/go.mod for one obvious example.

  • Fun with Avatars: Containerize the app for deployment & distribution | Part. 2
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2024
    Container Orchestration tools: These are used to automate the deployment, scaling, monitoring, and management of containerized applications. These tools simplify the complexities of managing and coordinating containers across a cluster of machines. They include Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS, Microsoft AKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), etc.
  • Exploring OpenShift with CRC
    2 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2024
    OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), otherwise known as just OpenShift, is a comprehensive, feature-complete enterprise PaaS offering by Red Hat built on top of Kubernetes, available both as a fully managed service on popular public cloud platforms such as AWS (ROSA) and as an internal developer platform (IDP) to be deployed on-premises on existing private cloud infrastructure, as VMs or on bare metal.
  • Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices"
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2024
    There are some things that should be in one long function (or method).

    Consider dealing with the output of a (lexical) tokeniser. It is much easier to maintain a massive switch statement (or a bunch of ifs/elseifs) to handle each token, with calls to other functions to do the actual processing, such that each case is just a token and a function call. Grouping them in some way not required by the code is an illusory "gain": it hides the complexity of the actual function in a bunch of files you don't look at, when this is not a natural abstraction of the problem at all and when those files introduce extra layers of flow control where tricky bugs can hide. Or see the "PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SIMPLIFY THIS CODE" comment from the Kubernetes source[0]. A 300 line function that does one thing and which cannot be usefully divided into smaller units is more maintainable than any alternative. Attempting to break it up will make it worse.

    That being said, I agree that nearly all 300 line functions in the wild are not like this.

    [0] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e593953...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gRPC and kubernetes you can also consider the following projects:

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

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

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

zeroRPC - zerorpc for python

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

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

nanomsg - nanomsg library

RPyC - RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for python

asio-grpc - Asynchronous gRPC with Asio/unified executors

bosun - Time Series Alerting Framework

Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

kine - Run Kubernetes on MySQL, Postgres, sqlite, dqlite, not etcd.