Microservice Communication

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/golang

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  • buf

    The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.

  • Being able to generate clients and server stubs from protobuf is actually really nice for building microservices. Not a hassle at all. Look into buf to manage client generation.

  • grpc-gateway

    gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

  • OpenAPI and possibly developing reusable, versioned client libraries could help, but it's a major undertaking that gRPC makes redundant. I'd be tempted to use grpc-gateway even if I had to implement a REST API. Try looking into buf and monorepo structures for proto management, e.g. something like GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo. For more thorough proto and grpc-gateway definition examples, see googleapis/googleapis.

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  • microservices-demo

    Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC.

  • OpenAPI and possibly developing reusable, versioned client libraries could help, but it's a major undertaking that gRPC makes redundant. I'd be tempted to use grpc-gateway even if I had to implement a REST API. Try looking into buf and monorepo structures for proto management, e.g. something like GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo. For more thorough proto and grpc-gateway definition examples, see googleapis/googleapis.

  • googleapis

    Public interface definitions of Google APIs.

  • OpenAPI and possibly developing reusable, versioned client libraries could help, but it's a major undertaking that gRPC makes redundant. I'd be tempted to use grpc-gateway even if I had to implement a REST API. Try looking into buf and monorepo structures for proto management, e.g. something like GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo. For more thorough proto and grpc-gateway definition examples, see googleapis/googleapis.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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