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4 questions in gRPC APIs.

  1. gRPC APIs advanced

    A gRPC client fleet calls a backend behind a layer-4 load balancer. After scaling the backend from 10 to 40 pods, the original 10 carry almost all the traffic and the new pods sit idle. Separately, calls have started failing with UNAVAILABLE after quiet periods. Diagnose both.

    3 min answer grpchttp2load balancingkeepalive
  2. gRPC APIs advanced

    A partial-update RPC takes the message and writes every field it contains. After a client release, support finds accounts whose discount percentage has become 0 and whose nickname has become empty, with no failed calls and no bad data in the client's logs. The protobuf definition uses plain proto3 scalars. Explain the failure.

    3 min answer protobuffield-presencepartial-updatefieldmask
  3. gRPC APIs intermediate Multiple choice

    A real-time platform uses gRPC internally and REST externally. Where exactly should the boundary sit, and what belongs at the translation layer?

    2 min answer grpcapi-boundarytranslationgateway
  4. gRPC APIs advanced

    You must remove a field from a protobuf message used by dozens of deployed services. Walk through the safe sequence.

    2 min answer grpcprotobufschema-evolutioncompatibility