At the core of a zero trust approach to security is the idea that trust needs to be established via multiple mechanisms and continuously verified. Internally, Google has applied this thinking to the end-to-end process of running production systems and protecting workloads on cloud-native infrastructure, an approach we call …

Developers use the gRPC RPC framework for use cases like backend service-to-service communications or client-server communications between web, mobile and cloud. In July 2020, we announced support for proxyless gRPC services to reduce operational complexity and improve performance of service meshes with Traffic Director, our managed control plane for …