gRPC
gRPC
Zilla offers support for the following gRPC bindings:
Each binding serves a distinct purpose, enabling seamless integration, routing, and management of gRPC-based interactions.
gRPC Proxy
Zilla's gRPC Proxy acts as an intermediary by managing, routing, and validating traffic between clients and backend services.
Key Capabilities:
- Authentication.
- Advanced Request Routing.
- Schema Validation.
Use Cases:
- API Gateway: Acts as a centralized entry point for managing and routing gRPC requests to other services.
gRPC Kafka Proxy
The gRPC Kafka Proxy enables gRPC APIs to interact with Kafka's event-driven architecture, simplifying the integration between gRPC clients and Kafka systems.
Zilla supports a migration path from gRPC to Kafka-native microservices without requiring changes to gRPC clients.
Key Capabilities:
- gRPC-to-Kafka Mapping: Translates gRPC API calls into Kafka messages.
- Correlated Request-Response: Ensures message consistency and traceability.
- Message Filtering: Filters Kafka messages for targeted delivery.
- Idempotency: Guarantees no duplicate processing of messages.
- Caching: Improves performance by caching frequently accessed data.
- AsyncAPI Specification Support.
Use Cases:
- Building event-driven gRPC APIs.
- Simplifying integration between gRPC and Kafka services.
Note
Also, checkout Kafka-gRPC Proxy.