Demystifying gRPC - with John Staveley

It is a privilege to welcome back John Staveley to Liverpool to do a talk on Demystifying gRPC. John Staveley is a developer focusing on web development with 24 years experience, mostly in the .Net stack. He is an organiser at Leeds Sharp, Leeds Data Science and Leeds IoT meetups and regular speaker on a variety subjects such as security, IoT and messaging across the north of England.

Talk
Intrigued by why some of the world's largest companies (Netflix, Google, Cisco, Twitter, Uber etc) are using gRPC? In this demo based talk we delve into the world of gRPC, what it does and why we should use it. We compare the interface with both Rest and graphQL. We will show you how to implement grpc server-side in .net and in the web. Finally, I will show you how the tooling helps you deliver powerful interfaces and interact with them quickly and simply.

Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsRgBdpVxVo

Food
We have a selection of food available including Vegan options but if you'd like to know more please drop one of our organisers a message before the event via the group message forum. (https://secure.meetup.com/messages/)
If you would need assistance to leave the building in the event of an evacuation then please let us know via the group message forum. (https://secure.meetup.com/messages/)

Schedule
Doors open from 18:00
Pizza at 18:30
Intro and welcome 18:40
Speaker from 18:50
Close ~21:00 (Don't feel bad if you have to leave early for a train/bus/lift home - no one will be offended)

Travel
Train - James Street station is a 2-minute walk from the Lab. Liverpool Lime Street is approx 15-20 minutes walking distance.
Driving - Underground parking available.
Bicycle - Cycle rack available.