Explore the current state and future direction of gRPC technology in this keynote presentation delivered by Prasanna Sathyanarayana from Google at a CNCF conference. Gain insights into the latest developments, improvements, and roadmap for gRPC, the high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework. Learn about recent enhancements to the protocol, performance optimizations, new features, and how gRPC continues to evolve to meet the needs of modern cloud-native applications and microservices architectures. Discover the impact of gRPC on distributed systems development and understand how it fits into the broader cloud-native ecosystem. This 10-minute keynote provides valuable updates for developers, architects, and engineers working with distributed systems and looking to leverage gRPC's capabilities in their projects.