GRPC server support

[ODudek]

Hello

Frequent querying and data retrieval from an HTTP server can lead to substantial costs due to the number of requests and the amount of data transmitted over the network. Is it possible to add support for a gRPC server? Does it even make sense? Let me know what you think. I'd be happy to prepare such a pull request if you see any benefit in it.

[janisz]

I think it's a good idea but in a separated repo. I like the minimalist go.mod of bigcache

[mpldr]

I think bigcache is more suited to be embedded into a service, than being its own, to be quite honest.

[ODudek]

@mpldr Why do you think so? I believe something like this would be useful even if we wanted to run Bigcache as a cluster

[mpldr]

On Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 4:18 PM CEST, Olek Dudek wrote: @mpldr Why do you think so? I believe something like this would be useful even if we wanted to run Bigcache as a cluster

It follows a pattern of microservification of things that shouldn't be microservices. Of course, depending on how your services look, it may be a valid thing to do; but I doubt this is the case for the vast majority of cases. Overall, it's always a team's choice, but most often a cache-service is not a great choice for a microservice. Main Reason being the triple-ping-latency (read-lock, read, read-unlock) (otherwise, brace for data races) is likely higher than most processing you are doing to the data. And if it is, it's likely a better solution to use a local cache. For reference: See https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90 (I mean… there are many things wrong with this, but the network traffic is one of them)

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