Expert talk: gRPC, Kubernetes & .NET • Mark Rendle & Matt Turner • GOTO 2022

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub Mark Rendle - Incurable Programmer & Lover of C#, .NET Core, Containers, Clouds & DevOps Matt Turner - DevOps Leader, Architect and Engineer at Marshall Wace DESCRIPTION Join Mark Rendle, MS Dev Tech MVP, and Matt Turner, DevOps leader, architect, and engineer at Marshall Wace, in a passionate discussion about gRPC’s past and future and how it fits in with technologies such as .NET and service meshes. They get deep in the weeds on technology cycles while debating the future of infrastructure as a code and Kubernetes. And Mark has a brilliant idea on how to build an alternative to Facebook. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:31 Writing APIs upfront 05:47 gRPC in .NET 09:22 gRPC & service mesh 14:47 gRPC & performance 21:50 Technology cycles 27:52 Infrastructure as a code 36:46 Kubernetes: The modern evolution of old mainframes 47:02 Building an alternative to Facebook 54:22 The programming language ecosys