GraphQL

We are lucky to have member Matt Ingenthron from Couchbase return to talk about GraphQL.

Thanks to JetBrains to sponsoring us. This month we will have four products to raffle off!

Thanks to Google for sponsoring this in person meetup!

Title:
GraphQL: Does it replace SQL, REST, or something else?

Abstract:
RESTful interfaces are probably the most common way to expose data as a service interface. They have some drawbacks though. There may be too much information, the format may change when you least expect it to, and you may have to write a fair amount of boilerplate code with basic things like joining across data of different types. Most databases, especially those that speak SQL (and SQL++), have a way to handle that through understanding data schema and relationships, projections and transformation. Does that mean I should install something on my database to GraphQL? And how do I use any of this from Java?

In this talk, Matt Ingenthron from Couchbase will revisit some of the fundamental needs with data access and data manipulation, talk about how this is done with GraphQL, and show how a flexible, fast and familiar database like Couchbase can be used to develop your own GraphQL microservices.

Dinner:
After the meetup, we will have dinner at Tokyo Table in the Diamond Jamboree Shopping Center. Bring cash or Venmo to split the bill. I've created a parking map where the 3 green P's show where you can park, including the parking garage and overflow lot:

Parking map: https://ibb.co/QkFzjSM

Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/aMEuzQb7QWqFiBHB6

Hope to see you there!