gRPC is a high performance framework for client server applications. It is designed to be cross platform and is an awesome alternative to RESTful services. In this episode we take a quick look at gRPC and Protocol Buffers, and how you can use them to build a simple API. This is the first video in a series of content where we dig into gRPC services. Source Code: https://github.com/nicholasjackson/building-microservices-youtube/tree/episode_13 Links: https://grpc.io/ https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3 https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding