Using gRPC in ASP.NET Core

By Shawn Wildermuth
In today's market, building services that communicate with a variety of platforms is crucial. gRPC represents a new, cross-platform, open-source way to build services for places that need tighter contracts and higher performance.
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 20, 2019
Duration
3h 4m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
What Is gRPC?
Contracts and Protocol Buffers 3m History of Distributed Computed 3m Introduction 1m The Role of gRPC 6m What We've Learned 1m
Adding gRPC to ASP.NET Core
Implementing the Service 7m Introduction 1m Protocol Buffers (ProtoBuf) 12m Setting up Your Machine 3m Using Known Types 2m What We've Learned 1m Wiring up gRPC to ASP.NET Core 5m
Creating gRPC Clients
Creating the Client Project 6m Generate Meter Readings 7m Implement the Worker 9m Introduction 1m Securing the Python Client 7m What We've Learned 1m Writing non-.NET Clients 11m
Working with gRPC
Error Handling 8m Introduction 0m Logging 3m Streaming 7m What We've Learned 1m
Securing gRPC
Enable Client Certificate Authentication 5m How Do Certificates Work? 9m Introduction 0m Middleware in ASP.NET Core 3m Setup Web Certificate 5m Use JWT in the Client 9m Use JavaScript Web Tokens 8m Use the Certificate in the Client 3m What We've Learned 2m
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Course info
Rating
(48)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 20, 2019
Duration
3h 4m
Description

gRPC is a new, growing way to connect services in a cross-platform, cross-language way. But it can be overwhelming to determine when to use. In this course, Using gRPC in ASP.NET Core, you will learn foundational knowledge about how to use gRPC in your own project and services. First, you will learn where to use gRPC in your own data centers and microservice architectures. Next, you will discover how to implement gRPC as part of your new or existing ASP.NET Core projects. Finally, you will explore how to build clients for gRPC, both in .NET and in Python. When you’re finished with this course, you will know how and when to most appropriately use gRPC in your own projects.

About the author
Shawn Wildermuth
About the author

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider.

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Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Shawn Wildermuth. Welcome to my course, Using gRPC in ASP.NET Core. I am a Microsoft MVP, author, and an international speaker. gRPC is a new growing way to connect services in a cross-platform, cross-language way. But it can be overwhelming to determine when to use it, versus other communication technologies like REST, GraphQL, and WCF. In this course, I'm going to show you when and how to use gRPC in your own projects and services. Some of the major topics that I'll cover include where to use gRPC in your own data centers and microservice architectures; digging into protocol buffers, the interface language of gRPC; how to implement gRPC as part of your existing ASP.NET Core projects; how to build clients for gRPC, both in .NET and in Python; and how to secure your gRPC services. By the end of this course, you'll know how and when to most appropriately use gRPC in your own projects. Before beginning this course, you should have some familiarity with ASP.NET Core. I hope you'll join me in learning gRPC with my Using gRPC in ASP.NET Core course here at Pluralsight.

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