The Bugsnag engineering team recently worked on massively scaling our backend data-processing pipeline to support the launch of the Releases dashboard. The Releases dashboard (for comparing releases to improve the health of applications) included support for sessions, which would mean a significant increase in the amount of data processed in our backend. Because of this and the corresponding increase in call load, we implemented gRPC as our microservices communications framework. It allows our microservices to talk to each other in a more robust and performant way.
In this post, we’ll walk through our experiences building out gRPC and some of the gotchas and development tips we’ve learned along the way. https://goo.gl/3XGSAa
