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

gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips