Enabling cancer research with GraphQL and A backend developer's view on GraphQL

📣Mark your calendars and join us on September 18 for an evening of talks and socializing! Special thanks to Shopify (https://www.shopify.ca/) for providing the space, and OK GROW! (https://www.okgrow.com/) for providing pizza!

Speakers & Talks:

First speaker: Mafinar Khan, Polyglot (probably Full-stack too) developer, mentor and speaker.
Talk: A Backend Developer's View on Practices, Patterns and Pitfalls of GraphQL.
Description: If chosen for the right problems and used right, GraphQL can be one of the most rewarding experiences for both front and back-end folks. But it has its own set of patterns and practices- not following which could invert those experiences. This talk looks at personal learnings as a GraphQL API developer, stumbling upon certain classes of problems and addressing them, discovered better practices, patterns, and identified pitfalls and finally, gaining the ability to reason about GraphQL and use it more comfortably.

Second speaker: Minh Ha, Software Developer, OICR (https://oicr.on.ca/)
Talk: Enabling cancer research with GraphQL.
Description: The software engineering team at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) has built various data access portals to enable discovery of cancer research data. Come and find out how GraphQL has been allowing us to standardize our stack and the challenges we face.

Schedule:
6:00 PM - Doors open + snacks.
6:30 PM - Talks begin.
8:30 PM - See you all next time! 👋