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Episode 421: Doug Fawley on gRPC

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Is There a Streaming Layer on Top of G R Pc?

There's no limit in terms of what type of data you can send, with appropriate buffering. But this isn't ye are designed for streaming. In those applications, you're more tolerant of a data loss. So g r pc does use t l s. We do take advantage of it. The way that our architecture works, you can actually plug in any type of transport security and that is negotiated at the beginning of every connection. And when the client and server, then you'd have finished that handshake, then what we talk over that incrypted connection is h t t v two - regardless of whether you are using t l s or something else. I also want to mention for listeners

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