Power to the (Mobile) People! - GraphQL w/ Howard Lewis Ship

GraphQL is a way to expose your services and data to your clients in a uniform, efficient, and client-driven way.It sidesteps much of the confusion and clutter of a REST solution, and provides clear solutionsto scalability, documentation, and updates to your data and services. We've been having great successwith GraphQL at Walmart, and are soon to release an open-source Clojure implementation.

Bio:

Howard Lewis Ship slings Clojure code at Walmart, right here in Portland.He's done a bunch of other stuff, largely in Java. He's got a grey beard, so heobviously knows what he's talking about.