GraphQL SF #7 hosted at GitHub

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Howdy! 😃

Yay! We are back! New organisers and a super duper meetup to celebrate! Welcome Sean, Sasha, Rajoshi and Adam. Are you for real? Yeah doh... GitHub will be hosting with their largest room and delicious catering! If you haven't joined yet this will be a great opportunity to meet and greet one of the largest GraphQL community in the world. That's right! We have been running GraphQL London since 2016 and today I'm happy to announce GraphQL SF is now part of the family! Woot!? Yeah... Now, that IS cool! ✨🦄

Agenda
6:00 - Open doors & mingling
6:45 - Welcome and brief intros
7:00 - Talks
8:00 - Socializing
8:30 - Close doors

Talks and Speakers

• Cloud native GraphQL (by Tanmai Gopal)

Tanmai Gopal is the CEO and co-founder of Hasura, an open-source technology company that helps modern product teams use GraphQL in cloud-native applications. He is a fullstack developer whose areas of interest and work span React, GraphQL, Haskell, Postgres and Kubernetes. He is passionate about making easy complex things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC with +250,000 students (imad.tech).

In this talk, I will talk about how GraphQL works really well for monoliths and what problems arise when using it with microservice and serverless architectures. I will introduce few patterns to really unleash GraphQL powers in the cloud:

• querying across multiple types/schemas distributed across microservices and data-sources
• writing CQRS style actions and how to make them work with event driven patterns
  Furthermore, I will cover both successes and lessons learnt from the community and Hasura.

• Patching up an old ship:
making GraphQL work with legacy systems (by Sasha Solomon)

Sasha is a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter working on the Core API Team to move Twitter to GraphQL. She was previously the Tech Lead at Medium. She has spoken at various conferences about migrating to GraphQL and how to model errors and alternative results. In her spare time, you can find her karaoke-ing, cycling, drawing, and on Twitter as @sachee.

Almost no one has the luxury of using GraphQL with a brand new system: you want to use GraphQL with your existing system. I'll talk through some of the issues you might have while moving to GraphQL from an existing system, what's worth migrating and what's not, and ways to bridge the gap.

• Empowering GraphQL on the Monolith (by Dinah Shi)

Dinah is a Torontonian living in San Francisco and a busy bee engineer at the GitHub Package Registry team.

GitHub has been using GraphQL since the spec was released into beta. The process incorporating GraphQL into the internal engineering team's developer workflow has been pretty much intact within the Rails Monolith since then. In this talk we will explore how GitHub enables their engineering organisation to distribute all the shiny out-of-this-world features coming in GraphQL.

• Sponsors

• Food and Drinks provided by GitHub
  Yum yum! For this event GitHub will be offering an assortment of delicious bites and beverages!

• Venue and talks recording provided by GitHub
  GitHub will provide the venue and also recording.

• Want to speak at our event?
  Send your talk proposals to www.papercall.io/graphql-sf

We are very excited about this event! Don't miss this chance to catch up on GraphQL and register before it's SOLD OUT!

Doors will open at 6:00pm.

Sounds good? See you there!
GraphQL SF.