gRPC - Performance Update and user presentations from YikYak and Arista

• Doors Open, Socializing, Snacks and Drinks (6:00 - 6:45 PM)

• Better performance through metrics (6:45 - 7:15)

Speakers: Vijay Pai and Jan Tattermusch, Software Engineers at Google

Abstract: The gRPC team is serious about measuring and improving performance - multi-language performance smoke tests are run as part of every pull request, and even more detailed performance tests are run every hour. Jan and Vijay will discuss the performance measurement programs that are a part of the gRPC distribution, the infrastructure used for continuous testing, and how these tools help us make decisions about future performance enhancements and quickly identify regressions. We'll also show you how to benchmark gRPC in your environment.

Go and GRPC at Yik Yak : Building our Next-Gen stack. (7:15 PM -7:45 PM)

Speaker: Eric Mayers, Engineering Director at YikYak

Abstract: Yik Yak started with a LAMP stack and usage grew very quickly - that platform served us well in experimentation and growth but but as we hit our next stage of growth and system scaling we're turning to Golang. Hear about about what we love about GRPC / Go / GCP and our challenges and learnings so far in this transition.

• Network telemetry streaming with gRPC (7:45-8:15 PM)

Speaker: Benoit Sigoure, Software Engineer, Arista

Abstract: As network telemetry is finally becoming real thanks to the OpenConfig effort, we’ve seen 3 transport protocols emerge as the transport mechanisms of choice in the industry: NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gRPC. In this talk we’ll discuss why gRPC is the best of those three, and how we also migrated to it for our other telemetry infrastructure as well as the distributed backend systems that ingest telemetry data, which was using a combination of HTTP and Finagle/Thrift. We’ll also compare what gained and lost in this transition.

• Continue socialization, snacks, drinks (8:15-9:00 PM)