Leveling Up Reddit's Core - The Transition from Thrift to gRPC

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  • grpc-go

    The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC

  • gRPCs encoding is robust enough to allow us to easily support alternative serialization formats through something called content-subtype. By defining a content-subtype, we can register a codec that will be able to perform serialization of thrift models. This was the key insight that allowed us to decouple the model refactor from the stub migration. Looking to the future, this also means that we will be able to provide a protobuf-based version of the same API, giving users a path forward for migrating away from Thrift models.

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