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July 14, 2023

End-to-end Streaming Between gRPC Services via Kafka

Learn how to integrate gRPC with Kafka event streaming; securely, reliably and scalably. Recording and slides from Kafka Summit London 2023.

Authors
John Fallows
Aklivity Engineering

Our Talk at Kafka Summit London 2023

You have built and deployed your gRPC micro-services architecture and now you need to expand beyond request-response to add streaming. Helpfully, gRPC has built-in support for bidirectional streaming. You probably already have the event streams in Kafka and have been tasked with figuring out the integration. You might even build a prototype to better understand the performance, security and scalability challenges.
I will discuss some of these challenges in detail and also describe solutions to help meet them, including a straightforward approach to bridge gRPC streams to and from Apache Kafka.

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