In today's episode, we are joined by Sam Bobra - engineering manager @VSCO, android fangirl and gRPC magician (some would go so far as to say evangelist !) to talk about gRPC on Android. Super informative episode!

Show Notes * VSCO * Sam's DroidconSF 2017 - Thinking Beyond the REST API: gRPC for Android * Microservices * Go (programming language)

Implementation * Protocol Buffers * protobuf-gradle-plugin * Reactive gRPC * Differences between gRPC & graphQL

Misc * codegen grpc-Java * codegen grpc-Lite * codegen Wire * Curling: grpcurl * envoy

Sponsors * Bitrise.io * Virtual Device Testing: full integration with Firebase Test Lab, run emulators quickly and reliably

Contact * @samwritescode [twitter.com] * @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] * @ryanjsalva * @donnfelker and +DonnFelker * @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe