GraphQL Manchester #4

GraphQL Manchester is back after a baby-related hiatus for a summer meetup.

Talk #1: Tanmai Gopal - Cloud native GraphQL: Making GraphQL work without a monolith

In this talk, I will talk about how GraphQL works really well for monoliths and what problems arise when taking it to microservice and serverless architectures. I will then present a few patterns that can allow for extracting the benefit of GraphQL while keeping the benefits of a microservices/serverless architecture. Specifically, I will talk about patterns for (reading) querying across types/schemas distributed across microservices and data-sources and also for "writing" with CQRS style actions instead of CRUD style "mutations" and how to make them work with event driven patterns. I will draw upon existing commentary (both successes and failures) in the GraphQL community, personal experiences and our learnings from Hasura users.

Bio: Tanmai is the co-founder of hasura.io. He is a StackOverflow powered fullstack, polyglot developer whose areas of interest and work span react, GraphQL, nodejs, python, haskell, docker, postgres, kubernetes. He is passionate about making it easy to build things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC imad.tech with over 250,000 students.

Second speaker TBC.

Food and drink supplied.