Seamless communication between services written in different programming languages is crucial. Sylk leverages the power of gRPC, an open-source high-performance framework, to facilitate efficient cross-language communication.
gRPC enables efficient remote procedure calls (RPC) between services, making it easy to invoke methods and exchange data across different components of your system. By utilizing a binary serialization format called Protocol Buffers (protobuf), gRPC optimizes the data transfer process, resulting in improved performance and reduced bandwidth consumption.
Sylk currently supports four languages for building distributed systems: JavaScript, Go, Python, and TypeScript. These languages were carefully chosen to cater to a wide range of development scenarios and requirements.
We are constantly working on expanding our language support and plan to include additional languages supported by gRPC in the near future.
gRPC offers additional features that enhance the security and observability of your distributed system. With pluggable authentication mechanisms, you can enforce secure communication between services and protect sensitive data. gRPC also provides built-in support for distributed tracing, allowing you to monitor and analyze the flow of requests across your system, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot issues effectively.
Sylk CLI integrates seamlessly with gRPC, providing a user-friendly interface and tooling that simplifies the development and management of cross-language distributed systems. Whether you're building microservices, event-driven architectures, or other distributed systems, Sylk with the power of gRPC enables you to overcome the language barriers and foster seamless collaboration between services
