NGINX and gRPC

For a demo on how to configure NGINX with gRPC check out this video https://youtu.be/bhiJfNDWRsY

What is gRPC and why do you need to configure your web server to traffic these connections? Check out this technical, yet high level whiteboard video to learn about this protocol to serve microservices traffic.

Use cases for gRPC:
– Generating client libraries connecting polyglot systems
– Suitable for connecting microservices at scale due to gRPCs compact serialization mechanism, and bi-directional streaming.

Use case with NGINX:
– SSL termination with gRPC connections/or use SSL all the way through to your backend.
– Identify gRPC services and methods, and route/load balance traffic to upstream groups with the nginx location directive

Learn more about gRPC and NGINX by reading our blog post here http://bit.ly/2ptYdWX