GraphQL Scale 2022
2022-11-15..2022-11-16
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who it's for
graphql engineers, frontend engineers, platform engineers, api architects, engineering managers, devops engineers, cms engineers
topics
Apollo Federation architecture; federated content platform; GraphQL schema evolution; streaming with @defer and @stream; GraphQL performance optimization; Relay compliance in federation; GraphQL subscriptions and streaming; event sourcing with GraphQL; end-to-end type safety; GraphQL mocking for developer productivity; GraphQL security best practices; headless GraphQL CMS for commerce
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| [Day1] Welcome and Opening Remarks . | Mehdi Medjaoui, Bryan Robinson, Alex Naydenov | 06m |
Conference opening announces a two-day event organized by Hygraph and apidays focused on GraphQL at scale, noting ten years since the first spec and seven… | ||
| Federating the Content Layer | Gijs Hendrix | 28m |
Argues that the CMS should evolve into a Federated content platform that wires together siloed sources so a single GraphQL layer can return data from multiple… | ||
| Building the Graph at Booking.com | Matt Sexton | 23m |
Booking.com replaces parts of a 25-year monolith with a federated graph that first migrates the search results and property pages, then mobile by wrapping the… | ||
| Unraveling Complex Content Models with GraphQL at PBS KIDS. | Aaron Berkowitz | 23m |
PBS Kids describes how GraphQL plus Apollo on AWS Lambda and Craft CMS turns a sprawling content graph into a single query layer, using dynamic “magic… | ||
| How GraphQL accelerates B2B Composable Commerce | Marco Egli | 19m |
A bespoke PWA storefront maps dozens of dentist workflows to a precise product model that supports multi-classification, multi-dimension configuration and… | ||
| What's next for GraphQL? | Michail Staib | 25m |
Preview of concrete changes: the spec work focuses on @stream and @defer using multipart HTTP responses to send patches (demo cuts a single POST from ~2s to… | ||
| A holistic approach on GraphQL and event sourcing | Dr. Daniel Becker | 24m |
T3n moves from coupled monoliths to a GraphQL stack that actually unifies data: GraphQL Federation with Apollo exposes a private and public API, small… | ||
| Build a performance-optimized GraphQL API | Lisa Li | 26m |
Six concrete tactics and tools: enable pagination to avoid fetching millions of products; stop overfetching by requesting only needed fields; minify queries… | ||
| I’ve finally seen the light, the future is a graph | Agata Witkowska | 24m |
Argues that GraphQL serves as a lightweight integration layer that replaces brittle point‑to‑point connectors and extra ETL/ESB systems, cites the surprising… | ||
| Transforming the Monolith into a Federated Graph | Jesper Rasmussen | 25m |
TV2 Danmark migrates a single GraphQL gateway serving video metadata into a federated graph after deciding to rewrite the video platform two and a half years… | ||
| Building Relay Spec Compliance in Federation | Mark Faga | 25m |
Describes how to make Relay’s connection and global object-identification rules work inside Apollo Federation by adding a dedicated node resolver that decodes… | ||
| Humble GraphQL | Diana Suvorova | 20m |
Uber runs several thousand microservices in a monorepo and introduces GraphQL for web front ends since 2019, resulting in 90% of web apps use GraphQL but with… | ||
| Handling breaking changes in a GraphQL schema | Kadi Kraman | 23m |
Shows how a breaking change truly behaves by example: replacing user.name with firstName and lastName must be done by add deprecate migrate remove so existing… | ||
| GraphQL mocking and why it is important for developer productivity. | Hugo Guerrero | 33m |
Claim: using contract-plus-examples mocking cuts developer wait time by letting frontends run in parallel with backends. Implementation uses Microcks with a… | ||
| Building the Graph at Booking.com | Matt Sexton | 23m |
Booking.com breaks a 25+ year monolith into a federated Graph, first migrating search results and property pages and then iOS/Android via a GraphQL wrapper… | ||
| [day2] Welcome and Opening Remarks. | Bryan Robinson, Alex Naydenov | 08m |
Quick logistical briefing and a preview of themes: sessions run 20 minutes with a 5 minute Q&A, talks record to YouTube and most decks and code snippets appear… | ||
| Don't Panic: A Developer's Guide to Building Secure GraphQL APIs. | Meenakshi Dhanani | 26m |
Analysis of real incidents (GitLab, WordPress, Instagram) shows GraphQL vulnerabilities rising since 2019; missing auth checks and field-level leaks cause data… | ||
| How to set up your organization and architecture for growth? | Mark Landman | 31m |
A seven‑pillar model ties growth mindset and documented systems to a microservice architecture with a headless CMS and event streaming for a single source of… | ||
| Steering through technological change | Adam Hall | 25m |
Analyzes 150 technologies in one month using five one‑hour workshops with 150 participants, surfaces 250 techs discussed and 50 contentious technologies… | ||
| Streaming Events vs Live Queries, a deeper look at Subscription Patterns | Jesse Martin | 24m |
Compares two GraphQL subscription patterns implemented in Hasura: live queries for current state and streaming events for event archives, with a demo chat app… | ||
| Should E-Commerce Companies Move to a Headless GraphQL CMS? | Maxime Topolov | 23m |
Argues that a headless GraphQL CMS becomes the single experience layer by federating external APIs: uses Shopify Storefront GraphQL as a remote source inside… | ||
| Deep Dive Into GraphQL Grammar and Syntax | Mohith Shrivastava | 26m |
Explains how GraphQL gives the client precise field-level control to avoid over- and under-fetching, with an example against the public Star Wars GraphQL… | ||
| Determining the right architecture design when adopting Apollo Fed. | Maria Lucena | 25m |
Fidelity moves a BFF-backed financial planning app into Apollo Federation as a proof of concept and proves the distributed graph can preserve existing… | ||
| Transformational Change Driven by Transformational Testing. | Matt Clarke | 24m |
Claims a production-grade testing pipeline built as Assurance as a platform that runs via CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, integrates GraphQL, Grafana and… | ||
| End to End type safety: A tale of three domains | Tasin Ishmam | 24m |
Argument: enforce consistent types from DB to client using TypeScript, Prisma, and graphql-code-generator. Demonstration changes a Boolean isPersonal into a… | ||
| GraphQL, Public Sector | James Darling | 23m |
Argues that GraphQL becomes the integration layer that lets low‑code citizen developers query just the data they need from disparate government systems. Uses… | ||
| Cloud & DevOPS culture | Erkin Ekici | 30m |
Cloud is framed as a declarative, game‑like platform driven by infrastructure as code (DALL·E used to illustrate declaration) and visible logos like Kubernetes… | ||
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