# GRPC Broker The grpc broker is a point to point grpc broker. ## Overview This broker is like the built in go-micro http2 broker except it uses grpc and protobuf as the protocol and messaging format. It uses the go-micro registry to subscribe to a topic, creating a service for that topic. Publishers lookup the registry for subscribers and publish to them, hence point to point. ## Usage ```go import ( "github.com/micro/go-micro/plugins/broker/grpc" ) // create and connect (starts a grpc server) b := grpc.NewBroker() b.Init() b.Connect() // subscribe sub, _ := b.Subscribe("events") defer sub.Unsubscribe() // publish b.Publish("events", &broker.Message{ Headers: map[string]string{"type": "event"}, Body: []byte(`an event`), }) ```