Implementing and using backend services with gRPC and Kotlin with Eli Burns

Google's gRPC is a valuable tool in defining back-end services that offer bi-directional streaming through HTTP/2 (with the latter conveniently abstracted away). We’ll touch on the basics of gRPC, why one may prefer to use it with respect to its alternatives(e.g. REST and/or OpenAPI), and then dive into its use in combination with Kotlin. The gRPC team now provides full support for generating sever and client code using suspended methods and Kotlin Flows, giving coroutines first class treatment and allowing engineers to provide powerful asynchronous expressively implemented services.