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! 🚀 The world of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving. We’re 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 · 5 min

Keynote: What's New in gRPC? - Ashish Srivastava, Google

Presenters Ashish Srivastava Source grpConf India 2025 🚀 The Future of gRPC: AI, Rust, and the Proxyless Revolution Welcome to the dawn of a new era for gRPC. At the first-ever gRPC Conf, Ashish Srivastava, Engineering Manager at Google, unveiled a roadmap that transforms gRPC from a high-performance RPC framework into the backbone of the modern cloud-native and AI-driven world. The strategy rests on three pillars: Modernization: Evolving the core to align with cloud-native builds, including gRPC Rust and MCP transport. Service Mesh & XDS: Advancing a world of proxyless service meshes where discovery, load balancing, and security are policy-driven. Observability: Investing in the philosophy that you cannot improve what you cannot see through advanced metrics and tracing. 🤖 gRPC: The Heart of the AI Ecosystem The AI landscape is exploding, and gRPC sits right at the intersection. Two protocols have recently dominated the conversation: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. ...

February 4, 2026 · 5 min

Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software By Tackling Early Ethical Debt

Presenters Erica Pisani Source InfoQ podcast Beyond the Hype: How Performance, Sustainability, and Ethics are Redefining Software’s Future 🚀💡 QCON London is the place for senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders looking for what’s next in tech. This past March, attendees dove deep into critical topics, including architectures, engineering productivity, and applying AI in the real world. It wasn’t about fleeting trends; it was about gaining practical insights from senior practitioners to make smarter investment decisions with your time and tech resources. ...

February 2, 2026 · 7 min

How to Make Your Sustainability Data Easier to Discover, with Chris Adams

Presenters Gaël Duez Chris Adams Source Green IO podcast Beyond the Greenwashing: How carbon.txt is Rewiring the Internet’s Future 🌍✨ In the fast-paced world of tech, we often hear grand promises about net-zero targets and carbon-neutral clouds. But as the “mask-off” moment for Big Tech arrives, a critical question remains: How do we separate high-quality PR from actual planetary progress? In a high-energy episode of the Green IO podcast, host Gaël sat down with Chris Adams, Director of Technology and Policy at the Green Web Foundation, to discuss the evolution of responsible technology. From the launch of the groundbreaking carbon.txt to the geopolitical shift in how we view digital sovereignty, the conversation was a masterclass in how we can move the needle toward a fossil-free internet. 🚀💻 ...

January 28, 2026 · 5 min

This AI Fights Health Insurance Denials • Holden Karau & Julian Wood

Presenters Holden Karau Julian Wood Source GOTO podcast Spark, AI, and Fighting the Insurance Maze: A Tech Revolution in Progress! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts and change-makers! We’re diving deep into the fascinating world where big data meets artificial intelligence, all inspired by a fantastic talk at GoUnscripted, GoTo Chicago. Prepare to have your mind blown as we explore how Apache Spark is evolving, how Generative AI is tackling real-world problems like insurance claim denials, and the exciting, yet challenging, landscape of open-source sustainability. 💡 ...

January 23, 2026 · 7 min