gRPC Demo

A simple gRPC application built with Go to learn the fundamentals of:

• Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
• gRPC Services
• Client-Server Communication
• Code Generation using protoc
• Unary RPC Calls

Project Structure

grpc-learning/
│
├── client/
│   └── main.go
│
├── server/
│   └── main.go
│
├── proto/
│   ├── calculator.proto
│   ├── calculator.pb.go
│   └── calculator_grpc.pb.go
│
├── go.mod
└── README.md

Features

• Calculator Service
• Add two numbers using gRPC
• Protocol Buffer based communication
• Auto-generated Go code from .proto definitions

Technologies Used

• Go
• gRPC
• Protocol Buffers

Getting Started

Install Dependencies

go mod tidy

Run Server

go run server/main.go

Run Client

go run client/main.go

Learning Objectives

This project was created to understand:

• How gRPC works
• How Protocol Buffers generate code
• Client-server communication using RPC
• Building services in Go using gRPC

Author

Shreyas G Gowda