gRPC Conf 2025

gRPC Conf 2025

In-Person
August 26, 2025

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Please note that all session times are listed below in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), UTC -7.

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9:00am PDT

Breakfast 🥐 Registration Lobby

10:15am PDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer Valley Oak

10:30am PDT

Keynote: The State of gRPC - Abhishek Kumar, Google Valley Oak

10:40am PDT

Keynote: Overview of gRPC - Ivy Zhuang, Google Valley Oak

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Industry Trends & gRPC - Muninder Sambi, Google Valley Oak

11:20am PDT

Solutions Showcase Forest Floor

11:35am PDT

Rethinking Data Flow in gRPC-Go: Maximizing Memory Reuse - Ricardo Fernández Alvarado & Easwar Swaminathan, Google Western Sycamore gRPC Rust - Doug Fawley, Google, and Lucio Franco, Turso Coast Live Oak Powering Cisco ThousandEyes High-Performant Data Streams with gRPC and OpenTelemetry - Vitaly Kumov, Cisco ThousandEyes Red Willow A Case Study of Enhancing gRPC Micro-Services for Supporting High Throughput, Low Latency Trading - Holly Casaletto and Yucong Sun, Coinbase Valley Oak Getting Started with gRPC-Java: Hands-on Codelab - Larry Safran and Sergii Tkachenko, Google Big Leaf Maple

12:05pm PDT

Managing Protocol Buffers at Scale - Richard Belleville & Terry Wilson, Google Red Willow Reducing gRPC Call Volume Through Caching and Batching - Benjamin Fedorka, Netflix Valley Oak Subsetting in gRPC: How We Implemented It at Datadog - Sergey Matyukevich, Datadog Coast Live Oak Building SpiceDB: A gRPC-First Database - Jimmy Zelinskie, authzed Western Sycamore

12:25pm PDT

1:35pm PDT

A Deep Dive Into Advanced TLS - Andrey Ermolov & Gregory Cooke, Google Coast Live Oak How Low Can You Go? A Comparative Dive Into gRPC and TtRPC for Memory-Efficient Environments - Archana Choudhary & Sudipta Pandit, Microsoft Western Sycamore Building a New gRPC Library in Swift - George Barnett, Apple Red Willow gRPC and AI - Eric Anderson and Yuexin Li, Google Valley Oak Getting Started with gRPC-Python: Hands-on Codelabs - Richard Belleville & Sergii Tkachenko, Google Big Leaf Maple Getting Started with Observability: Hands-on Codelab - Yash Tibrewal and Vindhya Ningegowda, Google Freemont Cottonwood

2:05pm PDT

gRPC Metadata Limits: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Alisha Nanda, Google Red Willow High Performance Service Meshes with gRPC Proxyless - Gina Yeh and Arvind Bright, Google Coast Live Oak Dos and Don’ts: Designing an XDS Backend for the LinkedIn Scale - Paul Chesnais, LinkedIn Valley Oak Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Privacy Techniques in Microservice Architectures - Rami Haddad, Cisco Western Sycamore

2:35pm PDT

Keynote: Ten Years of gRPC: Looking Back and Looking Forward - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh & Richard Belleville, Google Valley Oak

3:05pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - AI Valley Oak Birds of a Feather - Load Balancing Red Willow Birds of a Feather - Protobuf Coast Live Oak Birds of a Feather - Rust Western Sycamore Birds of a Feather - Service Mesh Big Leaf Maple

3:25pm PDT

Coffee Break ☕

3:50pm PDT

Enabling Distributed Transactions Across Microservices Using gRPC - Benjamin Hindman, reboot.dev Red Willow Unifying gRPC APIs under One Roof: Mastering gRPC Federation for Efficient BFFs - Shuhei Kitagawa, Mercari Western Sycamore Load Balancing in gRPC - Easwar Swaminathan, Google Valley Oak Getting Started with gRPC-Go: Hands-on Codelab - Arvind Bright & Doug Fawley, Google Big Leaf Maple

4:20pm PDT

Building Monorepo gRPC Services with Bazel - Alex Eagle, Aspect Build Red Willow Fortifying gRPC Microservices: Beyond JWT with mTLS and SPIFFE - Mehrdad Afshari, Signeen Western Sycamore gRPC Performance and Testing: A Maintainer Perspective - Ashley Zhang and Adam Heller, Google Coast Live Oak Adapting Our XDS Control Plane for Proxyless gRPC - Antoine Tollenaere, Datadog Valley Oak

4:50pm PDT

Keynote: Feedback, Q&A, Feature Requests Valley Oak

5:00pm PDT