Sep 14, 2016
Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, tells your cohosts Mark and Francesc why they chose gRPC for the newest version of etcd and how this improved its performance and development flow.
About Brandon
Brandon Philips is helping to build modern server infrastructure at CoreOS as CTO. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a graduate of Oregon State’s Open Source Lab he is passionate about open source technologies.
Cool things of the week
- @notch, creator of Minecraft would cloud again with Google Cloud Platform
A Stack of Stuff for .NET developers:
- Getting started with Cloud Tools for Visual Studio blog post
- Running Powershell on Google Cloud SDK blog post
- Installing and using Cloud Tools for Visual Studio YouTube
Interview
- CoreOS
- etcd: Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system GitHub
- Protocol Buffers Google Developers
- gRPC v1 GitHub release
- gRPC gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator GitHub
- CoreOS Community homepage
- Swagger aka OpenAPI
- gRPC streaming docs
Question of the week
- Emulator for Datastore docs