gRPC Conf 2025

This session is for engineers who’ve deployed gRPC at scale and are ready to go deeper. We’ll dissect how deadlines propagate across service boundaries and impact retry behavior, why batching strategies (manual vs. automatic) are essential for CPU-bound and streaming workloads, and how keepalive pings affect long-lived connections in load-balanced environments—especially with proxies like Envoy in the mix. Expect insights from production tuning, including edge cases with connection churn, head-of-line blocking, and deadline expiration races. You'll walk away with a nuanced understanding of how to fine-tune your gRPC services for high-performance, low-latency systems under real-world conditions.