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A Quick Introduction to gRPC and Related Tools

Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

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Intro
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What this episode will cover
1:55
What is gRPC?
3:49
Why leverage gPRC?
6:30
gRPC use cases
7:31
Drawbacks of gRPC
8:20
How to get started with gRPC
10:16
Quick recap
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Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis
A Quick Introduction to gRPC and Related Tools
Mar 08, 2026 Episode 66
Mirantis Inc.

In this month's episode Sr. Solution Architect at Mirantis, Zachary Fanelle, will walk you through the basics for getting started with gRPC and how to easily start integrating it into your Kubernetes workflows.

He will cover HTTP and REST APIs, as well as how these web technologies prompted Google to create gRPC in the first place. You will gain practical knowledge about what gPRC is, why it is leveraged by many developers in many use cases, and how it is supported in Kubernetes as of K8s version 1.24.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

  1. What is gRPC?
  2. Why leverage gRPC?
  3. gRPC use cases
  4. Drawbacks of gRPC
  5. How to get started with gRPC

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