GraphQL Summit 2022
2022-10-03..2022-10-05
San Diego, United States
[GraphQL Summit 2022, GraphQL Summit 2023, GraphQL Summit 2025]
who it's for
GraphQL engineers, platform engineers, frontend developers, mobile developers, engineering managers, developer tool authors
topics
federation and supergraph composition; Apollo Router written in Rust; normalized Apollo cache patterns; Apollo Client fetch policies; schema design and evolution; authorization with SDL directives; defer and stream execution; GraphQL tooling in Rust; migration to federated graphs; query and mutation input design; batching and response shaping; client-side caching for snappy apps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| GraphQL: everything you want in one query | Matt Debergalis | 08m |
Apollo presents a concrete claim: build a global supergraph by composing modular subgraphs with entities and Federation so unrelated teams or companies can… | ||
| it's all about the people | AD Slaton | 02m |
Community value outweighs tooling: the claim is that face-to-face conversations drive progress more than slides. Attendees use Slack and champion meetup… | ||
| Write better queries & mutations | Erik Bylund | 06m |
Advocates designing queries and mutations as functions: use single required input to reduce call permutations (example reduces nine possible calls to one)… | ||
| The future of GraphQL routing | Jesse Rosenberger, Bryn Cooke | 07m |
Apollo Router 1.0 is written in Rust and ships as a single binary audited by Doyensec, claimed secure by default and already running in enterprise production… | ||
| Is GraphQL a trap? | Sasha Solomon | 07m |
Argues that GraphQL’s wins become traps when misapplied: teams lose velocity to free-lunch migrations that add latency and ops cost; treating the database as… | ||
| The Root of Auth Things | Ashley Narcisse | 06m |
Argues that authorization is enforceable at the schema level by annotating with SDL directives and extracting permission checks into a centralized context… | ||
| Cache me if you can: Wayfair's secret to snappier apps | Ali Asghari | 07m |
Claims that using GraphQL caching with Apollo and a normalized cache yields snappy, consistent UI updates across teams. Implements queries in Kotlin +… | ||
| Streamlining how you shop: Walmart and GraphQL | Aditya Bakle, Ben Wilson | 06m |
Walmart moves from BFF-style standalone GraphQL services to a federated graph with a gateway, replacing duplicated item models so the item service owns item… | ||
| share how avoid these GraphQL pitfalls | Stephen Spalding | 07m |
Netflix reports dozens of schema updates per day, hundreds of subgraph deployments and billions of GraphQL requests daily, and recommends using Federation… | ||
| Escape the GraphQL Monolith | Divya Mahajan | 06m |
Fidelity moves a GraphQL monolith into a federated supergraph using Apollo Federation by carving out a complex passport resolver that touched three domains… | ||
| Fine-tuning Apollo Client's normalized cache | Raman Lally | 08m |
Explains how Apollo Client’s normalized cache stores a deduplicated lookup table of objects keyed by __typename + ID or custom keyFields, shows fetch policies… | ||
| GraphQL tooling in Rust | Irina Shestak | 06m |
Apollo is building apollo-rs in Rust including a GraphQL compiler used for parsing, validation and tooling across Rover, the graph router and graphos; a live… | ||
| How GraphQL & Apollo help drive Reddit's mission | Savannah Forood, Jameson Williams | 06m |
Reddit describes how Apollo and GraphQL power the iOS home feed via a Python Graphene graphql gateway then migrate to federated Go subgraphs to improve… | ||
| Experience-Oriented Graphs with Batching | Samuel Vazquez | 07m |
Expedia Group maps UI components to an experience-oriented schema so each component exposes its own GraphQL operation, which creates many client queries… | ||
| How we do localization | Dominic Chambers | 08m |
Babylon replaces a synchronous localization service with a dedicated localization subgraph so domain subgraphs no longer call a shared service for strings and… | ||
| Learn about Schema Design | 01m | |
Walmart builds a schema review team of GraphQL Champions that handholds every new subgraph, enforcing concrete patterns for types, field placement and naming… | ||
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