gRPC Golang Tutorial from Basics to Production

A complete guide to gRPC in Go — from introduction, protobuf, streaming, interceptors, and security, to a cross-language microservices case study. 110 articles across 11 structured chapters.

📅 Started Jun 2025 🔄 Updated every Mon & Thu 👤 Ihsan Arif

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gRPC Golang Tutorial from Basics to Production

IA Ihsan Arif·10+ yrs engineering

Format

✓ 110 chapters of text (~55 h reading + coding)
✓ Source code on GitHub
✓ Companion videos on YouTube
✓ eBook PDF version (optional)

What you'll master

1 Understand gRPC, protobuf, and their advantages over REST/GraphQL

2 Build your first gRPC server & client in Go from scratch

3 Implement all four RPC types including bidirectional streaming

4 Write interceptors & middleware for logging, auth, and rate limiting

5 Secure services with TLS, mutual auth, JWT, and OAuth2

6 Test gRPC with unit tests, mocks, bufconn, and load testing

7 Integrate gRPC with a REST gateway, Envoy, Kafka, Docker, & Kubernetes

8 Build a real cross-language microservices case study (Go, Node, Python, Java, Swift)

Before you start

—Familiar with Go — able to write programs and basic structs
—Understand the basics of HTTP/REST APIs
—Go toolchain & protoc installed (covered in Chapter 1)
—Terminal + editor (VS Code or your IDE of choice)

Curriculum

11 chapters · 110 articles · 55 hours total

Author

Ihsan Arif

Senior software engineer with 10+ years in backend & e-commerce. Go and Laravel specialist. Author of 248+ articles on Santekno since 2018.

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