gRPC with Lucio Franco

Episode 9 – gRPC with Lucio Franco.

A deep dive into the world of asynchronous networking in Rust with Lucio Franco, maintainer of Tonic, Tower, Tokio, and Hyper. We explore the origins and design of gRPC and its Rust implementation, Tonic—how it came to be, what problems it solves, and why it matters. Along the way, Lucio shares insights into open source collaboration, Google’s work on gRPC for Rust, and what the future might hold for the broader async Rust ecosystem.

Learn more:

https://github.com/hyperium/tonic — Tonic on GitHub https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio — Tokio runtime https://github.com/tower-rs/tower — Tower library https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-grpc — Archived tower-grpc project https://grpc.io/ — gRPC official site https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/blob/master/examples/helloworld-tutorial.md — Tonic "hello world" tutorial https://docs.rs/tonic/latest/tonic/ — Tonic technical documentation https://twitter.github.io/finagle/ — Finagle https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 — linkerd2

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Chapters

00:00 Intro 00:45 Introduction to Lucio 06:50 Lucio's Journey in Rust and Open Source 14:45 Future of tower 29:48 Exploring gRPC: Concepts and Features 36:33 gRPC vs HTTP: A Comparative Analysis 43:38 The Role of Proxies in gRPC Communication 54:12 Integrating Tonic with Other Stacks 59:15 Collaboration with Google on Tonic 01:07:03 Getting Started with Tonic and gRPC 01:09:48 Tonic Ecosystem: Recommended Crates 01:14:19 The Naming of Tonic 01:16:38 gRPC Web: Bridging the Browser Gap 01:23:16 Proxying gRPC Data: Considerations and Challenges 01:27:08 Outro

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