A Lightweight gRPC-Compatible Implementation for Sidecars - Tim Burks, Agent IO

Why watch

Tim Burks presents Sidecar, a minimal Go library that implements gRPC wire protocols using only the Go standard library with virtually no external dependencies. Originally designed for communication with sidecar proxies over Linux abstract sockets, Sidecar leverages Go generics and native HTTP2 support to make gRPC accessible to individual developers working outside Google-scale contexts. The talk covers how Sidecar works with IO, an Envoy controller bringing service mesh capabilities to single developers.