Why GraphQL Isn’t That Simple

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A Yandex engineer describes migrating backend services from REST to GraphQL for Yandex.RealEstate and Yandex.Rent, explaining how the team managed the GraphQL schema, why they implemented a custom GraphQL client, and how development processes changed after the switch. The talk also covers integration challenges encountered in a thick (monolithic) client and presents a fundamental BFF-level problem with a proposed solution.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:09Speaker background
3. 3:36Yandex.Renta’s GraphQL choice
4. 7:30First steps and adoption
5. 8:15Schema First vs Code First
6. 10:42Shifting development views
7. 12:21GraphQL in different apps
8. 13:30SSR problems with GraphQL
9. 16:53Backend GraphQL tips
10. 17:57Tooling challenges
11. 20:11Building a GraphQL client
12. 21:14Query structure and typegen
13. 22:21Type generation role
14. 24:59Error handling conventions
15. 27:293-year GraphQL results
16. 31:24Changes after adoption
17. 32:54Q&A

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