GUguifortaine·May 20, 2018Submission
Tower gRPC – A gRPC client and server implementation
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tower-grpc
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tower-grpc
A gRPC client & server implementation.
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A gRPC client & server implementation.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 18 | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 25 | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15 | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 22 | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 29 | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 12 | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 26 | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 5 | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 12 | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 19 | 2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26 | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2 | 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9 | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 16 | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 23 | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 30 | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7 | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 14 | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesJust an FYI (if you want something to watch and haven't heard about it already) https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-grpc is in the works by the same folks building tokio and hyper etc.
But yep, definitely not production ready as the README clearly states :)
In Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in RustI've written a few production-facing applications with Tokio; and I think the author exactly identifies the stumbling blocks I hit while learning the landscape.
My takeaway from working with Tokio is that it's a fairly low-level abstraction and doesn't do much to address the challenges of building networked _applications_. And this is OK.
We'll need higher-level layers that use Tokio, however, to address more specific use cases. I'll point to the nascent tower-grpc[1] library as something in this direction. I hope to see more things like this fall out of our work on Conduit[2].
[1] https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-grpc
[2] https://github.com/runconduit/conduit
In Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework