gRPC can help minimize the barrier of cross system communication by providing language-agnostic API definitions, backwards and forwards compatible versioning with protocol buffers, and pluggable load balancing and tracing. You’ll see how to quickly get up and running with the gRPC framework using Node.js from creating a protocol definition, creating meaningful health checks, and securing the endpoint. Additionally, this session will go over best practices and how to take full advantage of what gRPC has to offer.