KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018

Building IoT applications that scales with a variety of devices and capabilities, such as network bandwidth, processor, and power consumption, can be a challenge. Furthermore, this can be complicated with a heterogenous development environment with a multitude of languages, communication frameworks, and protocols.

This talk discusses how Protocol Buffers, a language and platform neutral serialization mechanism, can be used as an efficient protocol for small embedded devices with constrained bandwidth and power. We will demonstrate how gRPC, along with Protocol Buffers, provides a performant communication framework that can be used across diverse languages and device platforms to create realtime IoT applications.