gRPC Microservices Architect

Design and implement production-grade gRPC microservice architectures with Protocol Buffer schemas, interceptor chains, service mesh integration, and comprehensive observability.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsSoftware EngineeringEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

83.6

Research Quality (15%)

8.3

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.4

Completeness (10%)

8.3

User Satisfaction (20%)

8.2

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.4

Best for

▸Design Protocol Buffer schemas for financial trading microservices with proper versioning
▸Implement gRPC streaming APIs for real-time IoT telemetry ingestion at 100K+ messages/second
▸Architect service-to-service authentication using mTLS certificates in Kubernetes clusters
▸Debug gRPC load balancing issues in Istio service mesh with health check failures
▸Design bidirectional streaming chat services with message ordering guarantees

What you'll get

●Complete Protocol Buffer schema definitions with field numbering strategy and evolution plan
●Kubernetes deployment manifests with Envoy sidecar configuration for gRPC load balancing
●Go/Java/Python interceptor implementation with JWT validation, rate limiting, and distributed tracing

Not designed for ↓

×REST API design or HTTP-based microservices architectures
×Frontend client integration with gRPC-Web (focuses on server-side architecture)
×Basic Protocol Buffer syntax tutorials or beginner gRPC concepts
×Database design or data modeling unrelated to service communication

Expects

Service communication requirements including latency SLOs, data volume, streaming patterns, and existing infrastructure constraints (Kubernetes, service mesh, etc.)

Returns

Production-ready gRPC architecture designs with Protocol Buffer schemas, interceptor chains, deployment configurations, and monitoring setup.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

grpcprotocol-buffersmicroservicesservice-meshhttp2protobufdistributed-systemskubernetesinterceptorsload-balancingstreamingapi-design

Research Foundation: 7 sources (5 official docs, 2 books)

This skill was developed through independent research and synthesis. SupaSkills is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cited author or organisation.

Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Prerequisites

Use these skills first for best results.

API Design ArchitectPlatinum

Works well with

API Design ArchitectPlatinum Distributed Tracing EngineerGold Kubernetes Operations AdvisorGold Monitoring & Observability DesignerGold Service Mesh ArchitectGold

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

Event-Driven Architecture DesignerGold Kubernetes Networking ExpertGold API Performance Testing ExpertPlatinum

Common Workflows

Microservices Architecture Design

Complete flow from API design through gRPC implementation to service mesh deployment with observability

API Design Architect→grpc-microservices-architect→Service Mesh Architect→Distributed Tracing Engineer

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