An API First Approach to Adopting a Distributed SQL Database

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Shows a working pipeline that puts Hasura Cloud in front of Postgres and a geo‑distributed Yugabyte cluster to serve a unified GraphQL API, with demoed live queries, the generated SQL, and a remote countries GraphQL schema joined to order rows. Explains caching, rate limiting, edge deployment, and async cross‑region replication so reads are fast while writes replicate slowly, and demonstrates the setup actually returns joined data from Yugabyte and the external API.

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1. 0:00API first distributed SQL
2. 1:29Data access challenges
3. 3:16GraphQL solves data access
4. 4:18Hasura features
5. 5:22E-commerce scaling needs
6. 6:47Scalable e-commerce components
7. 8:59YugabyteDB distributed SQL
8. 11:08Dynamic data and caching
9. 13:16Frontend API and database
10. 14:42Automated infrastructure
11. 15:04Demo: Astra Cloud & Yugabyte
12. 16:35Database schema exploration
13. 17:38GraphQL queries
14. 21:38Remote schemas & relationships
15. 25:56Resources & community

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