October 2020: Scaling GraphQL subscriptions with YugabyteDB

Come and join us for the October 2020 meeting of GraphQL MN. We will again be virtual this month and we are using Zoom for teleconferencing. This month's topic will be on GraphQL subscriptions.

GraphQL subscriptions are seeing wider adoption in building real-time applications. Hasura, a popular GraphQL server implementation provides GraphQL subscription support through live queries, which is nothing but querying the backing PostgreSQL database at a fixed interval. Obviously, as the number of subscriptions increase, it increases the query load on the PostgreSQL database server, in addition to any other live operations being carried out on a database.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how we scaled the GraphQL subscriptions linearly to a million subscriptions using a distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB. In addition to linear scalability, GraphQL subscriptions will inherently become resilient against outages due to the fault tolerance and HA capabilities of distributed SQL databases.

Two representatives from Yugabyte, Inc. (https://www.yugabyte.com/) will be presenting: Nikhil Chandrappa, Director Ecosystem Engineering and Matt Sundberg, Director of Enterprise Sales.