GraphQL SF #9 hosted at Reddit

==== Event will be recorded and available online ====

• Provide Full Name in your RSVP or you will be denied access by the building security
• RSVPs will close Wednesday, January 29th at midday. Changes on your RSVP won't have any effect after that.

Hi everyone and happy belated new year! 😃

Yay! We are kicking off 2020 with a new venue! This time around, Reddit will be hosting and offering some delicious bites at their HQ near Union Square! ✨🦄

Before anything else, I want to thank our co-organisers Adam, Rajoshi, Sean and Sasha for doing a great job hosting and helping running the meetup. Thanks for volunteering your time. Your help is much appreciated.

Please give a warm welcome to Reddit as our sponsors for the night. This is super awesome as they have been supporting GraphQL since the early days! Thanks for that! 🏆

Visit: www.reddit.com/r/graphql

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! ✨🦄

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

• Delivering faster with GraphQL and Strapi (by Pierre Burgy)

Pierre is the co-founder and CEO of Strapi, an open sourced Headless CMS. He is a Node.js and APIs lover. You will usually find him either coding or windsurfing.

Developing applications faster is a top priority for every company. In this talk, Pierre will explain how Strapi provides an easy way to create API on the fly and query your data through a generated GraphQL schema. Pierre will also do a live demo of how to easily integrate graphQL with any front-end frameworks to accelerate content and features delivery.

• Making magic with GraphQL Tooling (by Sean Grove)

Sean is a globally experienced conference speaker. Avid reason fan working with React, Clojure/script, Rust, GraphQL & Reason. Founder of OneGraph, tool unifying all relevant API under one GraphQL roof.

The introspectable-by-default nature of GraphQL opens incredible tooling possibility, all of which are shareable with the wider community. Sean will walk through the state of open-source GraphQL tooling with live demos: schema explorers, code generators, doc systems, and even a few special surprises aimed at sparking your imagination of what's possible!

• From Zero to Front Page: Two Years of GraphQL at Reddit (by Adam Collins and Laura Ungar)

Adam is staff engineer working for the Platform Engineering team at Reddit. Laura is a software engineer working in the same team.

During this talk, Adam and Laura will share all the highs and lows of building, testing, evangelizing, and supporting GraphQL at Reddit during the past two years. A period that have seen plenty of growth – and growing pains – in Reddit's infrastructure and application frameworks. As a reference, during this time, Reddit grew from 330M in 2018 to 430M monthly active users in 2019.

• Sponsors

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

• Venue and talks recording provided by Reddit
  Reddit will also provide venue and recording. We should all agree that this is dope! ⚡

• Previous talks (12 recordings)
  Watch previous talks and be up-to-date subscribing* at:
  https://www.youtube.com/c/GraphQLTalks?sub_confirmation=1

*Thanks to our subscribers! With your help we finally were able to set a friendly YouTube channel name: GraphQL Talks!

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

Also don't miss this chance to catch up on GraphQL and register bf it's SOLD OUT!

Doors will open at 6pm sharp.

Sounds good? See you there!
GraphQL SF.