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Putting gRPC multi language support to the test By Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate gRPC is an RPC framework developed and open-sourced by Google. There are many benefits to gRPC, such as efficient connectivity with HTTP/2, efficient data serialization with Protobuf, bi-directional streaming and more, but one of the biggest benefits is often overlooked: multi-language support. Out of the box, gRPC supports multiple programming languages : C#, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby and more. In the new microservices world, the multi-language support provides the flexibility you need to implement services in whatever language and framework you like and let gRPC handle the low-level connectivity and data transfer between microservices in an efficient and consistent way. This all sounds nice in theory but does it work in reality? As a long-time Java and C# developer, I wanted to see how well gRPC delivered on its multi-language promise. The plan was to run a couple of Java gRPC samples...

Putting South African science fiction on the map Guardian.co.uk Books Blog: Putting South African science fiction on the map Last month, Lauren Beukes scooped one of the science fiction worlds major literary awards - and in doing so, heralded something of a coming of age for South African speculative fiction. Beukes - who describes herself as "an author, scriptwriter and recovering journalist" - won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke award for her second novel, Zoo City . The previous weekend the novel was on the five-strong shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association awards, missing out to Ian McDonalds The Dervish House at the major genre gathering Eastercon in Birmingham. But the Arthur C Clarke award � which saw Beukes beat McDonald � will be more than compensation, as will the news at the weekend that she has been shortlisted in the John W Campbell award for best new writer, to be revealed alongside the Hugo nominations in the US in August. Beukess novel is publi...