GraphQL Happy Hour

GraphQL Happy Hour !!

Tuesday October 1st @
Major League Soccer
420 5th Ave 7th Floor
New York, NY 10018

We are happy to announce that GraphQL NYC is kicking off again with another afternoon of GraphQL Happy Hour.

This time around we have partnered with the wonderful engineering team at Major League Soccer to bring you an afternoon of food, drinks, and amazing talks!!
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Monica Restrepo
Software Engineer @ Major League Soccer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrestrepoz/

GraphQL ecosystem:
It's the perfect time to get immersed into the GraphQL ecosystem. New tools appear and evolve frequently and you might be excited to start using it in your projects. But, where to start? Where to go first? How to get to implement GraphQL for the fist time in a practical way? This talk aims to explain the basics of GraphQL and how to write a simple application that uses it from scratch.

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Jake Dawkins
Open Source Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL
https://twitter.com/jakedawkins
https://jakedawkins.com

Bio:
Jake is an open source engineer for Apollo, focusing on making the GraphQL ecosystem more accessible through thoughtful developer tooling. He has a passion for teaching and making technology as approachable as possible. He designed and built GraphQL products for two years before joining Apollo to build the GraphQL ecosystem full-time.

Talk Description:
GraphQL has always promised a development experience like no other through advanced and easy-to-use tooling. But have we reached that point yet? In this talk, Jake will discuss the state of GraphQL tooling, how to get the most out of GraphQL, and what could be improved with how people work on GraphQL projects.
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John Dodson
Principal Architect @ Major League Soccer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnedodson/

GraphQL Caching At Scale
Due to its nature, caching GraphQL is difficult, but with the correct configuration of tools and data getters, you can easily handle over 100 million origin requests per month.