PHP Hampshire May 2019 - Increasing Velocity with GraphQL and PostgreSQL

Our May meetup. This is a free event, all welcome to join! There will be pizza (including vegetarian option) and tea/coffee.

Agenda:

19:00 Arrival with pizza sponsored by Efficio
19:30 Welcome announcement
19:35 Talk by Benjie Gillam
20:35 Closing notes
20:45 Social at Brewhouse Pompey

Talk: Increasing Velocity with GraphQL and PostgreSQL

GraphQL has exploded in popularity since its public launch in 2015, and PostgreSQL is still going strong after 20 years of development, gaining market share and impressive features at an ever increasing rate. These tools can pair beautifully, in particular because they're both strongly typed and declarative.

In this talk, we'll learn how combining these two technologies through PostGraphile can lead to massively increased software development and delivery speed, faster APIs, fewer bugs, and ultimately enable you to spend less time writing boilerplate and more time delivering business value.

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Benjie is a crowd-funded open source developer, working on tools that enable developers to rapidly build maintainable GraphQL– and PostgreSQL–powered servers. He maintains PostGraphile (an instant extensible GraphQL API for Postgres) and related open-source tooling focussing on enhancing development speed, performance and stability.

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Are you interested in talking at our next meetup? Please get in touch by emailing us at speak@phphants.co.uk!

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Sponsors:
Spectrum IT - Spectrum IT Recruitment is a collaboration of over 10 years recruitment experience, providing recruitment services and consultancy to the IT sector UK wide.

Efficio - Efficio help organisations reduce costs, improve internal processes and upskill their procurement teams so that they can realise cost savings faster. The Digital department in Fareham use PHP to build Efficio's procurement product suite.

JetBrains PhpStorm - PhpStorm keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.