gRPC in Microservices

I have been working with a microservices application using gRPC as the main service-to-service communication mechanism for almost a year. So, I decided to write a blog post and share my experience on how to do gRPC right in a microservices world! So, let’s get started! TL;DR DRY! Have a package for your common messages. Choose unique names for your gRPC packages. Choose singular names for your gRPC packages. Distinguish your gRPC package names with a prefix or suffix....

Jun 1, 2019 · 11 min · Milad Irannejad

An Overview of Graphql

TL;DR GraphQL is an API integration layer in distributed software (microservices) world. GraphQL is both a query language and a runtime for executing the queries. GraphQL solves underfetching and overfetching problems. GraphQL is strongly typed. Caching, profiling, and rate limiting are challenging with GraphQL! Schema stitching is a technique for decentralizing a GraphQL schema in microservices world. Schema stitching can be done by convention or configuration. GraphQL schemas can be completely decentralized by choreography....

Apr 30, 2019 · 1 min · Milad Irannejad