Uber’s Next Gen Push Platform on gRPC

Uber’ s Next Gen Push Platform on gRPC

摘要

In our last blog post we talked about how we went from polling for refreshing the app to a push-based flow to build our app experience.

All our apps need to be synced with real-time information, whether it’s through pickup time, arrival time, and route lines on the screen, or nearby drivers when you open the app. We use our push platform to deliver these messages that power the real-time user experiences as described in our previous post, which we strongly recommend that you review to learn about the details of the architecture before proceeding.

This blog post will cover how we changed our protocol from Server Sent Events (HTTP1.1) to gRPC-based bidirectional streaming (QUIC/HTTP3), the challenges we faced, the final results, and some key learnings.