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Karen Xu is a Staff Software Engineer on the Search Platform team at Uber. She pioneered the development of gRPC and Protobuf support within OpenSearch and serves as a maintainer of the OpenSearch core, opensearch-api-specification, and opensearch-protobufs repositories.

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Advancing OpenSearch with gRPC and Protocol Buffers

March 19, 2026

OpenSearch now offers native gRPC endpoints with Protocol Buffers, featuring an automated conversion pipeline from OpenAPI specifications. Benchmarks show up to... Read more.

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Advancing OpenSearch with gRPC and Protocol Buffers

OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data.

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