Feature Work In GRPC; XDS And Not

The presentation discusses the recent achievements and developments of the grpc project, including the launch of observability and custom load balancer policy features.

• Grpc has reached 66,000 stars on GitHub and has a large number of new members in the last six months
• The team is investing more in the project and has a very active release cadence
• The proxylist servermesh product has launched observability and custom load balancer policy features
• The team takes issues and pull requests seriously and encourages contributions from outside the team
• Grpc is interested in having more maintainers and graduating from incubator status

Grpc won the best in microservices infrastructure award at API world and is becoming an industry standard with impressive download numbers for various packages

gRPC provides services with high performance communication to use in many environments. Much of the recent work in gRPC has involved xDS (https://github.com/cncf/xds), a collection of control plane protocols that can configure data planes like Envoy and gRPC that is becoming popular to use in datacenter service meshes. The work is just past a turning point with the foundational features implemented in gRPC. In this session we'll discuss how all users, those that use xDS and those that don't, can benefit. We will cover newer features and how they achieve their goals using the cross-language xDS gRPC architecture.