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Building an Apollo VSCode Extension (Shadaj Laddad)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Shadaj Laddad, Software Engineering Intern at Apollo, is currently a student at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Apollo VSCode is a brand new, open-source extension that provides code completion, linting, and analytics data for GraphQL right in your IDE! In this talk, we'll explore all of the features of this extension, from writing queries faster to getting Engine performance stats displayed inline, and how to use them to optimize your GraphQL development workflow. We'll also take a look at some features coming soon to the extension and how to get involved with contributing to the extension!

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Schema Composition (Martijn Walraven)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Martijn Walraven, a Tech Lead at Apollo, shares schema composition strategies that range from techniques for achieving modularity within a single codebase, to tools and workflows that help teams collaborate on a shared data graph distributed across multiple services.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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GraphQL as a Universal Database Abstraction (Søren Bramer Schmidt)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Søren Bramer Schmidt, co-founder and CTO of Prisma, is rethinking data access in application development from the ground up. Using GraphQL as a universal query language for all databases, we're enabling simpler data access with many benefits such as type-safety, cross-database JOINs and out-of-the-box realtime capabilities. This talk is about the challenges we've faced while building Prisma, such as the N+1 query problem, query optimization, reflecting database features in the GraphQL API design, building an event system for databases and more.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Testing GraphQL (Jake Dawkins)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Jake Dawkins, an Apollo Architect, focusing on making the GraphQL ecosystem easier to use at any scale. After putting multiple GraphQL services into production and assisting with countless more, Jake has learned a thing or two about how teams implement GraphQL within their organization.

Teams that adopt GraphQL see it become a powerful, yet critical part of how their applications work. The schemas that power these apps act as an important agreement between servers and clients. So how do you support such an important piece of infrastructure? With tests of course! This talk is a deep dive into how to test the Apollo Platform, giving you the security you need to go into production.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Apollo Client Deep Dive (Ben Newman)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Ben Newman, a Tech Lead at Apollo, shares how improved cache performance improved so dramatically in recent months, and what you should know to take full advantage of those improvements.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Hermes: Using a Graph… To Efficiently Cache a Graph (Ian MacLeod)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Ian MacLeod, Principal Developer at Convoy

Ian has worked as a software engineer on a variety of different projects—from the initial build of Kindle for iOS (Amazon), to various bits of the Polymer project (Google), to complicated logistics software (Convoy). All the while, he has stayed active in open source, leaving a trail of contributions in multiple communities (Ruby, iOS, JS, TS, GraphQL)

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We take you on the journey that lead to the creation of Hermes—a GraphQL cache (for Apollo) that does things a little differently. You'll hear about some of the challenges implementing a fast GraphQL cache, and all the crazy things it has to deal with under the hood.

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From Idea to IPO: Convincing Your CTO about GraphQL (Abhi Arora)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Abhi Arora is the CTO and founder of Hyrecar, a car-sharing for ride-sharing startup that went public in June 2018. "You are super excited about GraphQL, are using it in personal projects, and want your entire team to adopt it!" This talk will cover HyreCar's journey from learning about GraphQL to adopting it for our entire business.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Supercharge Your Schemas with Custom Directives (Ryan Chenkie)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Ryan Chenkie, Trainer/Developer at Angularcasts.io, is a full-stack JavaScript developer, trainer, and Google Developer Expert and believes that GraphQL's schema language is beautiful. It allows us to author data models concisely and communicate with teammates clearly. Using Apollo, we can also write directives to supercharge our schemas with custom behavior. Let's talk about how to write custom directives and the benefits they offer.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Backend Agnostic Requests with GraphQL Style Querying (Conor Hastings)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Conor Hastings, Senior UI Engineer at Netflix, believes that GraphQL offers tons of benefits. The colocation of data is the most revolutionary to me. What if we could utilize existing the GraphQL query parser but talk to any backend? I'll explore how we can use GraphQL style data fetching without a GraphQL backend to bring colocation of data everywhere.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Hidden Gems of a GraphQL Query (Ivan Goncharov)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Ivan Goncharov, GraphQL Consultant at APIs.guru, is active in GraphQL community and one of the core contributors to graphql-js. We all love GraphQL query syntax because it’s simple and easy to learn. At the same time, it has a few useful features that are typically overlooked. If you think that you already know everything about GraphQL queries this talk is for you. Warning: this talk will contain spoilers from GraphQL Spec

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Fast 'End-to-End' Testing with GraphQL (Robert Dickert)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Robert Dickert, Senior Software Engineer at OK GROW!, knows that end-to-end testing has always been painful, but GraphQL can help. The GraphQL-first paradigm allows a new way of testing that gives us the confidence of true end-to-end tests without needing both client and server running, and without heavy end-to-end testing tools.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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GraphQL Summit 2018 - Opening Keynote (Geoff Schmidt)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Apollo's co-founder and CEO, Geoff Schmidt, shares his insights on "how to do GraphQL right" and his vision for the ecosystem.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Battle-Hardened API Patterns from Two Years in Production (Kiyan Azarbar)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Kiyan Azarbar, Senior Developer at Shopify, knows that GraphQL is mission-critical at Shopify. For two years it has propelled our mobile app forward, and its use continues to spread, powering multiple APIs and bridging separate domains and services together. This talk presents the most valuable lessons we've learned about this new lingua franca.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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GraphQL: Bringing Simplicity And Correctness To A Client Near You (Chris Toomey)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Chris Toomey, Development Director at thoughtbot, details how GraphQL can bring simplicity and consistency across your clients, while simultaneously improving productivity and correctness.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Destined to Fail (Jesper Rasmussen)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Jesper Rasmussen, Software Engineer at TV 2 Denmark, examines why you need GraphQL. Considering running a GraphQL API gateway? Have you ever thought about the number of things that could go wrong, when users consume the data exposed? What happens when a service you depend upon is gone? What’s the maximum amount of data you could live without?

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Moving from Redux to GraphQL (Shruti Kapoor & Perumal Palani)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Shruti Kapoor, Software Engineer at PayPal, and Perumal Palani, Member of Technical Staff - 2 at PayPal, walk through the decisions of moving from Redux to GraphQL. Have you been thinking of how your current Redux architecture will fit into a GraphQL app? Ever wondered what will happen to the reducers and data store and what is its GraphQL equivalent? How would you store data on the client side?

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Hard-Learned GraphQL Lessons: Based on a True Story (Natalie Qabazard & Aditi Garg)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

- Aditi Garg is a Software Engineer who wishes the world was written in Javascript and works as a full-stack developer on Trulia’s Local team.
- Natalie Qabazard is a Senior Software Engineer working on the Trulia team at Zillow Group and she actively works with React, Typescript, GraphQL, and AWS.

A beginner GraphQL developer may have questions for which only some answers can be found in docs, blog posts, & threads online. Come hear from 2 Trulia engineers who answered their own questions when building GraphQL data sources. They'll share tips & best practices they established at Trulia.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Building the Case for GraphQL (Jon Wong)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Jon Wong, Staff Software Engineer at Coursera, is part of the frontend infrastructure team responsible for pulling our engineering organization to the cutting edge, one migration at a time. You love GraphQL — you want to use it where you work! But either you don't own your backend, or you think there might be some political hurdles to getting it productionized; follow this easy process to get GraphQL working in _any_ ecosystem, even yours!

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Transforming Enterprises with GraphQL and Apollo (Kristy Miller)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Kristy Miller, Senior Developer at Poetic Systems, leads development teams and crafts solutions to help our clients achieve their goals. As I push myself and our industry, I want to inspire women everywhere to feel like they can achieve their biggest dreams: It doesn't matter your background or your gender if you have the drive and the passion, you have the courage to pursue it.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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GraphQL for a Payments API: Challenges and Lessons (Sadique Ali Koothumadan)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Sadique Ali Koothumadan, Senior Software Engineer at Braintree, shows how to introduce a public GraphQL API on top of existing layers of APIs for a complex domain, while keeping the internal APIs flexible. Learn about the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned while moving from REST to GraphQL.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Managing Your Graph in Production (James Baxley)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

James Baxley, an Engineering Manager at Apollo, shows how to tie schema change validation and operation safelisting into your CI workflow so you can go into production safely and with confidence.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Netflix Studio Insider: µServices to GraphQL (Dane Avilla)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Dane Avilla, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, shares the lessons-learned at Netflix as we established a mechanism for teams to 'opt in' and migrate from various microservice platforms (REST, gRPC, etc.) to GraphQL while preserving 'Freedom & Responsibility'.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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query { lovesGraphQL(company: 'SurveyMonkey') { value } } (Louise Fox)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Louise Fox, Engineering Manager at SurveyMonkey, leads the Web Platform team where her team is focused on Reimagining SurveyMonkey. Find out how SurveyMonkey’s use of GraphQL transformed its web architecture from a system tightly integrated/coupled with the backend to a scalable and flexible architecture while improving web and developer performance. From many to mono, we will explore SurveyMonkey’s journey of reimagining its frontend and how the use of GraphQL made that possible.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Teaching GraphQL (Eve Porcello)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Eve Porcello, Engineer and Instructor at Moon Highway, has taught numerous courses for LinkedIn Learning and is the co-author of O’Reilly’s Learning GraphQL and Learning React. Even if your bio bills you as an engineer, developer, or manager, she has a secret for you: you are also a teacher. Whether you’re ramping up a new hire, mentoring a co-worker, writing documentation, or giving a technical talk, you’re constantly expected to share knowledge as requirements and technologies rapidly change.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Beyond Static With Gatsby & Apollo (Jason Lengstorf)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Jason Lengstorf, Developer Advocate at Gatsby, is a developer, occasional designer, and frequent speaker. He’s passionate about building tools, systems, and training materials to create high-performance teams and apps. For most of us, “static sites” only work for simple sites, like personal blogs. But static sites can do so much more! In this talk, learn how Gatsby & Apollo help you build apps that combine the performance and workflow benefits of static sites with the flexibility and power of server-driven sites.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Not Sold Yet: A Humble Tale From Skeptic to Enthusiast (Garrett Heinlen)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Garrett Heinlen, Software Engineer at Netflix, is a converted skeptic. Hear how Netflix is running GraphQL in production. The love story of two: A seasoned developer and a hip shiny graph meet and the REST is history.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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GraphQL Schema Design @ Scale (Marc-André Giroux)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Marc-André Giroux, Platform Interface Engineer at GitHub, is trying to help build better APIs.
GraphQL's type system is what makes it so powerful. However, as our schemas grow, they sometimes become hard to evolve, hard to reason about, and hard to use for our integrators. Over the past 3 years, he's observed the good, the bad, and ugly in GraphQL schemas. These are his findings.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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A Fullstack GraphQL App in 2 Minutes with the Vue CLI and Apollo (Guillaume Chau)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Guillaume Chau is a Vue.js Core Team member working on vue-cli, vue-devtools and vue-curated. He also created of the integrations with Apollo GraphQL (vue-apollo) and Meteor (vue-meteor) to help developer build highly interactive and realtime Vue-powered apps, and he contributes to the ecosystem with tools like vue-virtual-scroller and v-tooltip. The new Vue CLI is now the standard build tools to create Vue.js app. With its plugin system, you can add new features like Apollo GraphQL in an instant. Only a few minutes are required to create a full-stack Vue.js and GraphQL app and then you can start creating the next killer-app!

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Building Type-Safe GraphQL Servers (Johannes Schickling)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Johannes Schickling, co-founder & CEO of Prisma, explores why building applications in a type-safe way is the gold standard for application development. It comes at the cost of writing lots of boilerplate and, for GraphQL, keeping data structures in sync with the strongly typed GraphQL schema. This talk discusses the tools and best practices for building end-to-end type-safe applications with GraphQL, touching on topics like schema-based code generation, type-safe resolvers, Apollo Data Sources, strongly typed database access and more.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Improving the GitHub Developer Experience with GraphQL (Brian Douglas)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018

Brian Douglas is a Developer Advocate at GitHub where he works on increasing use of the GitHub API by helping users through technical content and examples. He focuses his day to day work on developer engagement through the GiHub Developer Program by fostering a community for 3rd party API development. The move to GraphQL marked a larger shift in GitHub's Platform strategy towards more transparency and more flexibility in our API. Over the past year, GitHub has been iterating on their schema to bring it closer towards feature completeness and strengthening the use for 3rd party integrators. Join me in walking through some of the newer ways developers are leveraging our API primitives and benefiting from GraphQL adoption into their development workflow.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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What's next for Apollo Client (Peggy Rayzis)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Peggy Rayzis, an Engineering Manager at Apollo, shares how Apollo Client 2.5 revolutionizes state management for React apps now that apollo-link-state is merged into the core library. She discusses how to manage local state with Apollo Client, as well as some of the new tooling available with the Apollo CLI and VS Code extension.

Learn more about Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/

Join Apollo's community Slack group: https://www.apollographql.com/slack/

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com

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Shipping 'Belonging' with GraphQL & Apollo at Airbnb (Adam Neary)

by Apollo GraphQL

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 7, 2018

Airbnb's mission is to create a world where anyone can Belong Anywhere. But we can only deliver on that vision by executing! GraphQL and Apollo Platform sit at the center of a portfolio of tools engineers at Airbnb are using to ship faster, and Adam (Tech Lead at Airbnb) does live coding to demonstrate how fast and easy it is to build product when these tools are all working together.

Learn more: https://summit.graphql.com