Integrating gRPC with the Homa Transport Protocol

Explore the integration of gRPC with the Homa transport protocol in this 39-minute talk by John Ousterhout from Stanford University. Learn about the Homa protocol, a clean-slate redesign of network transport for datacenters that offers significantly lower latency than TCP. Discover how Homa's API differs from TCP's socket-oriented interface and the challenges this presents for adoption. Understand the efforts to integrate Homa with gRPC, allowing applications to switch to Homa with minimal code changes. Gain insights into the preliminary performance measurements and the challenges encountered while working with the gRPC codebase. This CNCF presentation is ideal for developers and engineers interested in improving datacenter network performance and exploring alternatives to TCP for gRPC-based applications.

Integrating gRPC with the Homa Transport Protocol - John Ousterhout, Stanford University