How Proxyless gRPC Works in a Service Mesh - Kannan Jayaprakasam & MV Shiva Prasad, Google

Presenters Kannan Jayaprakasam MV Shiva Prasad Source grpConf India 2025 Unlocking the Power of Proxyless gRPC in Service Meshes! 馃殌 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt like your application code is drowning in complex networking logic? We鈥檝e all been there, right? The good news is, the world of service meshes is evolving, and today, we鈥檙e diving deep into a game-changer: proxyless gRPC within a service mesh architecture. Join us as we explore this exciting evolution, the crucial role of XDS, and how gRPC is leveraging these technologies for blazing-fast, performant systems. ...

February 4, 2026 路 8 min

Keynote: State of gRPC - Prasanna Sathyanarayana, Google

Presenters Prasanna Sathyanarayana Source grpConf India 2025 From Microservices to AI: Celebrating 10 Years of gRPC 馃殌 The air at gRPC Conf India was electric as Prasanna, gRPC Executive Sponsor and a decade-long fan of the technology, took the stage to celebrate a massive milestone. It has been 10 years since gRPC burst onto the scene in 2015, and in that decade, it has evolved from a Google-internal project into the backbone of modern distributed systems. ...

February 4, 2026 路 4 min

Panel: AI's Real-Time Engine: gRPC, WebSockets, or SSE? - A.K. Sachdeva, P. Mamgain, I. Thiagarajan

Presenters Anmol Krishan Sachdeva Paras Mamgain Indumathy Thiagarajan Source grpConf India 2025 Navigating the AI Highway: Choosing the Right Protocols for Real-time, Low-Latency Applications 馃殌 Good afternoon, everyone! If you鈥檙e joining us after lunch, you know this slot can be tough, but we鈥檙e here to keep things exciting and insightful. Today, we鈥檙e diving deep into a fascinating challenge in the world of AI: how do we ensure our intelligent applications run with the lightning-fast speed and rock-solid reliability they demand? ...

February 4, 2026 路 7 min

Beyond Deploy: Unlocking gRPC's Superpowers on Cloud Run - Eshita Chandwani & Pranjali Saxena

Presenters Eshita Chandwani Pranjali Saxena Source grpConf India 2025 Bridging the Gap: How gRPC Powers Serverless in the Cloud Service Mesh 馃殌 The term serverless is perhaps the most misleading name in cloud computing. Let鈥檚 clear the air: there are still servers. We haven鈥檛 figured out how to run code on pure magic just yet! What serverless actually means is that you鈥攖he developer鈥攁re no longer responsible for managing that infrastructure. ...

February 4, 2026 路 4 min

gRPC as the Native Transport for Agent Protocols (A2A and MCP) - Pawan Bhardwaj & Ashesh Vidyut

Presenters Pawan Bhardwaj Ashesh Vidyut Source grpConf India 2025 Agentic AI Needs a Smarter Network: Enter gRPC for Agent Mesh! 馃殌 The world of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving. We鈥檙e moving beyond simple prompt-and-response generative AI towards agentic AI, where intelligent agents perform complex tasks by coordinating with each other and utilizing various tools. But how do these agents communicate securely and efficiently? This is where networking protocols become crucial, and a new evolution is underway, with gRPC playing a pivotal role. ...

February 4, 2026 路 5 min