GraphQL Berlin Meetup #24 - an onsite event + quiz with prizes 😎

The next edition of the GraphQL Berlin Meetup is coming up! 😎😊

Come join us for a cozy evening of quality talks, networking, and yummy snacks and drinks - veggie and vegan options provided. 🍹🌭

During this meetup, we will run an interactive quiz! 🎁

◭ 6:30 - Doors open, time for snacks 🌮
◭ 7:00 - Welcome and announcements 🤝
◭ 7:10 - "GraphQL as an API Gateway" 🎙 + Q&A and announcements
◭ 7:55 - "Building GraphQL APIs for a vector search engine, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" 🎙+ Q&A and announcements
◭ 8:35 - Break + snacks 🌭
◭ 8:50 - "Why GraphQL Is Perfect For Microservices" 🎙 + Q&A and announcements! 🎁
◭ 9:30 - Doors close 👋

🎙 Dominik Kress (https://github.com/Rotfuks) - "GraphQL as an API Gateway"

With the trend of the microservice architecture distributed systems are more complex than ever before. But there are more and more tools to control the chaos of architecture of many small services with many small interfaces. One of those innovative helpers is also GraphQL - which can not only be an API but also an API-Gateway for other (GraphQL-)APIs. In this talk, we want to discover how this is possible.

Dominik Kress is author of the german written book "GraphQL – Eine Einführung in APIs mit GraphQL", explaining fundamentals of APIs and GraphQL. Next to his (too) many side-projects and publications around the topics of Interface-Optimization he works as a Technical Product Owner for the Schwarz Groups Cloud Initiative.

🎙 Bob van Luijt (@bobvanluijt) - "Building GraphQL APIs for a vector search engine, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

Machine learning has become an omnipresent tool that powers many applications, so when Weaviate started out building a database that has a specific focus on searching through machine learning vectors, they needed an interface that has a great UX, is simple to use, and could represent the data in a way they needed. During this talk, Bob will present a case study of the GraphQL interface in the Weaviate vector searching engine. What problem did they aim to solve, Why did they pick GraphQL and how is it implemented?

Links:

1. https://www.semi.technology/developers/weaviate/current/
2. https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

🎙 Roy Derks (@gethackteam) - "Why GraphQL Is Perfect For Microservices"

GraphQL and microservices architectures are perfectly compatible. You can use GraphQL as a data layer for these microservices and combine data from all these services into one universal API. This way, you can break the core of your services into different microservices while still providing one endpoint that your clients can interact with. Before diving into GraphQL, let's explore what microservices are and why it can be helpful to add GraphQL.

Roy Derks, Developer Relations at StepZen, is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author from The Netherlands and, in his own words, 'wants to make the world a better place through tech'. He has been giving talks and training to developers worldwide on technologies like GraphQL, React, and TypeScript. Most recently he wrote the book Fullstack GraphQL.

We will be giving out colored stickers to help you indicate how comfortable you are with in-person contact:

🟢 choose the green sticker if you are happy to connect and chat with the other attendees,
🟡 choose the yellow sticker if you're open to joining the conversation but cautious,
🔴 choose the red sticker if you'd rather enjoy the meetup alone.

The talks will be recorded and there will be a photographer onsite. Please let us know in advance if you do not want to appear in the photos.