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Season 4, Episode 16June 17, 2025Duration: 55m 7s

Spring gRPC with Dave Syer

Dan and DaShaun are joined by Spring team member Dave Syer to explore the official Spring gRPC project. At the end of this episode, you will understand how Spring gRPC provides a Spring-friendly API for developing high-performance gRPC applications, including server and client autoconfiguration, Spring Boot integration, and streamlined Protocol Buffer handling. The hosts will demonstrate how to build gRPC services with Spring's familiar dependency injection patterns and discuss the benefits of gRPC's HTTP/2-based communication over traditional REST APIs.

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Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Spring team member Dave Syer to explore the official Spring gRPC project. At the end of this episode, you will understand how Spring gRPC provides a Spring-friendly API for developing high-performance gRPC applications, including server and client autoconfiguration, Spring Boot integration, and streamlined Protocol Buffer handling. The hosts will demonstrate how to build gRPC services with Spring's familiar dependency injection patterns and discuss the benefits of gRPC's HTTP/2-based communication over traditional REST APIs. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.

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