Hello folks, I recently started using grpc and would like to clarify few doubts related to Compression.
I have looked at the following doc: gRPC Compression <https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/compression.md> and wanted to check if my understanding is correct. In our current use case, we send requests via REST Endpoints and we gzip our requests. Reduced Compression is close to 10-15 times than original. (eg. 70MB payload is compressed to 5MB payload) In case of gRpc, eg. if grpc client sends entire 70MB payload using either channel compression (eg. blockingStub.withCompression("gzip")) or using high/medium level compressions, then does that mean 1. On the wire, it'll be compressed to 5MB payload and on the serve side when I open up the gRpc request, Payload will be of 70MB size ? 2. On the Server side, I do not have to explicitly mention that Server is going to handle Compressed and/or Uncompressed messages. But gRpc protocol will take care of Compressed and Uncompressed format, by keeping server transparent of any of these formats. It'll only complain if it's not able to handle certain Compression format which Sever can NOT handle. Is this assumption correct ? 3. Apart from gzip, what other compression formats are supported eg. Snappy ? 4. Is there an easy way to hook up Monitoring System like Prometheus on Individual Channel basis so that I can test or monitor above compression functionality by checking Throughput numbers on the channel ? Any help will be much appreciated Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/aa3fe81d-9712-4f99-bd33-89bd3b328d4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
