World Congress 2023 • Sep 27, 2023

Designing gRPC APIs - The things they don't tell you

Bastian Eicher

Did you know gRPC's language-agnostic promise often breaks down at the implementation layer? Uncover the hidden architectural truths behind evergreen versioning, nullability, and robust error handling.

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