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Panel Discussion: The GraphQL Production Roundtable

on YouTube 28m
Panelat GraphQLConf 2026 · on Wednesday, 2026-05-20· at 10:50· Grand Ballroom II - IV· [frontend-architecture, engineering-leadership]

speakers

name:Aileen Chen
links:none on file
name:Clarice Abreu
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name:Stephen Spalding
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name:Jory Burson
website:http://www.joryburson.com/

resources

video:https://youtu.be/Ig8YAsRNTjA
slides:none on file

summary

Large orgs describe concrete defenses: an operation registry with trusted documents, adaptive concurrency using a Netflix library, and traffic sharding after a “query of death” incident that infinite‑loops and forces two production shards to contain the blast radius. CI bots run schema linting and an AI review bot plus a graph doctor that flags breaking changes, with an experimental directive to opt into unstable fields and weekly automated PRs that delete unused fields driven by production metrics from a platform that hosts 600 tenant modules.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Welcome and panel intro
  2. 1:44Flexibility and its costs
  3. 7:06Schema governance at scale
  4. 13:51Onboarding and training engineers
  5. 18:29Federation challenges
  6. 24:08Starting from scratch today
  7. 28:01Closing remarks

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