Lecture 6: gRPC

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Lecture 6: gRPC

Overview

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

The Network Protocol Stack

URL Structure

HTTP Messages

HTTP Request Structure

HTTP Response Structure

HTTP Methods

gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call)

What is a Remote Procedure Call?

Why Use Remote Procedure Calls?

RPC Tools

Example: Building a Remote Function

Step 1: Move to Client-Server Architecture

Step 2: Add Network Communication Code

Step 3: Request and Response Messages

Serialization and Deserialization

gRPC Protocol Stack

Protocol Buffers (Protobufs)

Challenge 1: Different Type Systems

Challenge 2: Byte Ordering

Variable-Length Encoding

Conclusion

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