How Netflix Makes gRPC Easy to Serve, Consume, and Operate

Explore Netflix's advanced gRPC stack implementation in this informative conference talk. Discover the numerous features that enhance their gRPC operations, including seamless configuration reloading, framework-level caching, and HTTP2 transport configuration. Learn about Netflix's approach to retries, hedging, and observability through Spectator metrics, Zipkin tracing, and framework logging integrations. Gain insights into Eureka name resolution, custom thick-client load balancing, and client and server concurrency limits. Understand how Netflix implements cross-framework deadlines and timeouts, chaos testing, canary testing, and Jakarta message validation. The talk concludes with a discussion on Netflix's future vision, including their plans to shift certain features from language-specific implementations to using Envoy for ingress/egress proxies.

How Netflix Makes gRPC Easy to Serve, Consume, and Operate - Benjamin Fedorka, Netflix