CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Industry Trends and gRPC in Modern Networked Applications

Explore emerging software industry trends and the role gRPC plays in modern networked applications.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reducing gRPC Call Volume Through Caching and Batching

Netflix describes embedding cache directives in proto definitions to wire caching into gRPC stubs, alongside request batching that combines calls.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dos and Don'ts: Designing an XDS Backend for LinkedIn Scale

Lessons from building and scaling a custom xDS backend to bridge LinkedIn’s D2 service discovery with Envoy and gRPC.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fortifying gRPC Microservices - Beyond JWT with mTLS and SPIFFE

Secures gRPC microservices with mTLS, focusing on certificate distribution, expiration, and reloads as alternatives to JWT-based approaches.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Case Study of Enhancing gRPC Micro-Services for Supporting High Throughput, Low Latency Trading

A production case study on reducing latency in Coinbase’s Go and gRPC trading platform through streaming, message-format, and scheduler changes.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unifying gRPC APIs - Mastering gRPC Federation for Efficient BFFs

See how gRPC Federation combines multiple gRPC APIs into a Backend for Frontends using Protocol Buffers and a WebAssembly plugin system.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adapting XDS Control Plane for Proxyless gRPC - Datadog's Experience

A practical account of adapting an xDS control plane to configure standalone load balancers for proxyless gRPC, replacing DNS-based service discovery.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Low Can You Go? A Comparative Dive Into gRPC and TtRPC for Memory-Efficient Environments

A comparison of ttRPC and gRPC examines how their performance and security differ in memory-efficient environments.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Privacy Techniques in Microservice Architectures

An interceptor adds configurable data minimization and purpose limitation policies to gRPC, enforcing privacy requirements dynamically across microservices.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Load Balancing in gRPC

Explore how gRPC clients select load balancing policies, implement custom policies, and configure them through the control plane.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

High Performance Service Meshes with gRPC Proxyless

Learn how a gRPC data plane can reduce sidecar overhead while retaining service mesh traffic management and security.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

gRPC Metadata Limits: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Examines how gRPC metadata size limits affect performance and reliability, including configuration pitfalls and ways C++ applications can guard against oversized metadata.

• YouTube
• 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Overview of gRPC Architecture and Terminology - Keynote

Trace a gRPC call from inception to completion while exploring its architecture, name resolution, load balancing, and HTTP/2 wire protocol.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

gRPC and AI: Adapting to Changing Development and Workload Paradigms

A look at how AI changes gRPC development and how gRPC is evolving to support demanding AI workloads.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Server-side WebAssembly in Go with Wazero

Explores running WebAssembly on the server using Go and the Wazero runtime.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video