GraphQL Berlin #3

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We're back with the third GraphQL Meetup in Berlin with fantastic speakers from all around the world. This time we'll be diving into GraphQL subscriptions and better API tooling.

As always there will be free drinks and snacks, so please feel free to come and chat with us about GraphQL!

Entry: 6:30pm - Talks begin: 7pm (Talks are 20min each - Networking & Snacks afterwards)

The whole event would be live-streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jMOK5AS7n9o

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Talk 1: Using GraphQL subscriptions with Apollo

In this talk we’ll dive deeply into GraphQL subscriptions and see how to use them today in real-world applications with Apollo Client. We will explore the concepts behind subscriptions and how they work on a full-stack level. By the end of the talk you’ll have a good understanding when and when not to use GraphQL subscriptions and what the future of real-time GraphQL might look like.

Speaker: Johannes Schickling is a Berlin/SF-based entrepreneur and founder of Graphcool, a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL+ AWS Lambda. He previously built and sold the VR company “Optonaut”. Johannes studied computer science at KIT, Germany and loves cutting-edge mobile/web technologies.

Talk 2: GraphQL: the next level of API tooling

API-tooling was mainly limited to docs, SDK generation, API Consoles and Postman. We at APIs.guru have been developing API tooling for more 2 years and we think GraphQL is game-changer in this field. We will quickly describe main features of GraphQL: introspection, IDL, directives, type-system, etc. We will buttress up theory by concrete examples from our open-source tools: graphql-voyager and more.

Speaker: Ivan Goncharov and Roman Hotsiy have been working on API tooling under APIs.guru brand for the last two years. They recently entered GraphQL world with GraphQL Voyager - a spectacular tool for visually explore your GraphQL API as an interactive graph.

Talk 3: The guts of GraphQL

Simplicity is one of the core values of the Go ecosystem. How does GraphQL hold up in that regard? Better than GRPC, that's for sure. In this talk I'll give food for thought on several up and downsides of GraphQL that I noticed while implementing a GraphQL server in Go.

Speaker: Richard Musiol has led the transition from GRPC to GraphQL at Sourcegraph. He's also the author of GopherJS, a compiler from Go to JavaScript.

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Thanks a lot to Contentful (https://contentful.com) for hosting this event and providing drinks & snacks! 🍻