Keynote: GraphQL In The House

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Office of the Clerk modernizes a 30-year legislative system by migrating LIMBS from a mainframe-backed legacy DB to a Red Hat Linux-hosted relational database, a microservice business logic layer, and a React/Apollo SPA front end; GraphQL sits on top via Hasura as API server with views-only DB access and mutations funneled through a business logic layer, implementing a CQRS loop and nightly syncs to legacy data, and the platform substantially reduces API churn while meeting strict correctness and performance needs.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 2:07Legacy system overview
3. 5:03Why GraphQL was chosen
4. 7:10System architecture design
5. 9:22Long-term data goals
6. 12:12Benefits and simplicity
7. 16:29Conclusion and Q&A

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