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Luke Millar is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience across the spectrum, from small startups to industry giants. Following the acquisition of his former venture, Projector, by Medium, Luke has taken the helm as the Vice President of Engineering at Medium, spearheading key initiatives and charting the course for technical excellence.

Topics discussed include:

  • Small Medium Team
  • Tremendous Impact
  • Medium’s Phases
  • Going Faster
  • Being Acquired
  • Visual Storytelling
  • Changes @ Medium
  • Employee Retention
  • Work & Fun
  • Meaningful Goals
  • Team Building
  • Halving Amazon Costs
  • Technical Improvements
  • Hiding Behind Big Teams
  • Engineering Ladders
  • Clarity Helps
  • Introducing Levels
  • Impacting Business
  • Domain Expertise
  • Experienced Engineers
  • In-House Solutions
  • Maintaining Tech Costs
  • Build vs Buy
  • GitHub’s Changes
  • Making Users Happy
  • Listen To Users
  • Medium’s Scale
  • Medium’s System
  • GraphQL Queries
  • Spikey Traffic
  • Cost Issues
  • Caching Layers
  • News Traffic
  • Unpredictable Spikes
  • 10000 Requests Per Second
  • GraphQL At Medium
  • GraphQL Pitfalls
  • Technology Trade-Offs
  • Bloated Queries

Links:

Medium
Twitter
Website
LinkedIn
Medium Engineering Blog

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Dylan Valade is an accomplished technology executive, serving as the Head of Global E-Commerce Technology at PUMA. With an unwavering passion for leveraging technology to drive business growth, Dylan has been instrumental in transforming PUMA's online presence and establishing the brand as a leader in the global e-commerce landscape. His strategic thinking and innovative approach have propelled PUMA to new heights, delivering forward thinking and progressive digital experiences for customers around the world.

In addition to his role at PUMA, Dylan is also recognized as a MACH Alliance Ambassador, actively promoting the benefits of modern, composable, and headless technologies in the industry. As an advocate for the MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) approach, he champions the adoption of scalable and flexible architectures that empower businesses to adapt quickly to evolving market demands.

Topics discussed include the following:

  • PUMA’s Tech Stack
  • Attracting Developers
  • Ideal Stack
  • TypeScript
  • Comfortability & Speed
  • Iterating Faster
  • GraphQL at PUMA
  • Frontend Iterations
  • Salesforce
  • Bleeding Edge
  • Sanity
  • CMS Systems
  • Shopping Core
  • Organisational Problems
  • Cover Of Stellate
  • Resolving Caching Issues
  • Bringing Down Costs
  • E-Commerce Innovations
  • AI
  • Cache Management
  • Developer Zone
  • Patience
  • Shipping Speedy Changes
  • Fast Enough

Links:Dylan Valade on LinkedIn
PUMA
MACH Alliance
Stellate

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Dylan Valade is an accomplished technology executive, serving as the Head of Global E-Commerce Technology at PUMA. With an unwavering passion for leveraging technology to drive business growth, Dylan has been instrumental in transforming PUMA's online presence and establishing the brand as a leader in the global e-commerce landscape. His strategic thinking and innovative approach have propelled PUMA to new heights, delivering forward thinking and progressive digital experiences for customers around the world.

In addition to his role at PUMA, Dylan is also recognized as a MACH Alliance Ambassador, actively promoting the benefits of modern, composable, and headless technologies in the industry. As an advocate for the MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) approach, he champions the adoption of scalable and flexible architectures that empower businesses to adapt quickly to evolving market demands.

Topics discussed include the following:

  • Milliseconds Make Millions
  • E-Commerce Performance
  • Web Vitals
  • Shifting Measurement Landscape
  • Highest Value Sessions
  • Wasted Investments
  • Various Metrics
  • Idea To Production Time
  • Elite Organisations
  • Iteration Speed
  • PUMA's CMS Improvements
  • Bottlenecks
  • Internal Startup Ecosystem
  • Moving Faster

Links:Dylan Valade on LinkedIn
PUMA
MACH Alliance
Stellate

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In the latest episode of GraphQL Radio, we take you behind the curtain with platform architect Charles Brown from Formidable to discuss how Formidable and Stellate joined forces to solve massive volume problems for PUMA while reducing operation costs by 30%+. This is the first of many in our new Build in Public Series. The wide-ranging discussion is led by Stellate's very own Andreas Heiberg, Engineering Manager, and supported by Jovi De Croock, Staff Software Engineer.

Charles Brown is a full-stack engineer and platform architect with a broad range of experience leading large and small teams. He has spent the last 15 years working with both startups and enterprises, designing and building next-generation software and cloud infrastructure. He is a certified AWS Architect and has consistently delivered secure, stable, and highly available cloud infrastructure for numerous clients.

Charlie's previous work includes building solutions ranging from thermal image mapping for the manufacturing industry, processing IoT data at scale in the cloud, and rebuilding health and financial services platforms from the ground up. Charlie is also a strong advocate of DevOps and has consulted with dozens of enterprises to help them smoothly make the transition from traditional ops to a more agile development cycle.

Topics discussed include:

  • PUMA's Platform Architecture
  • Formidable Labs
  • Optimizing App Performance
  • Optimizing The Cloud
  • Splitting Queries
  • PUMA's Scale
  • Massive Volume Problems
  • Caching Considerations
  • PUMA's Platform Challenges
  • Splitting Data
  • Aggregating Queries
  • Marketing Campaign Speeds
  • Cache Key Complexities
  • Mitigating Bot Attacks
  • Reducing Operation Costs
  • "Cache Stories"
  • Consultancy Support
  • Netflix Scale Problems
  • Inventory Systems
  • Exciting Tools
  • AI Tools
  • Content Management World
  • Sanity CMS
  • Content Lead Time
  • Real-Time Cache
  • Purging Complexities
  • Clearing Caches
  • GraphQL & Stellate
  • Salesforce
  • Request Latencies
  • urql
  • Edge Networks
  • Multi-Region Cloud
  • E-Commerce Video
  • Worldwide Cache Clearing
  • Edge Compute
  • React Server Components
  • Next.js

Links

Stellate
Formidable
Charles Brown
Andreas Heiberg
Jovi De Croock

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Dylan Valade is an accomplished technology executive, serving as the Head of Global E-Commerce Technology at PUMA. With an unwavering passion for leveraging technology to drive business growth, Dylan has been instrumental in transforming PUMA's online presence and establishing the brand as a leader in the global e-commerce landscape. His strategic thinking and innovative approach have propelled PUMA to new heights, delivering forward thinking and progressive digital experiences for customers around the world.

In addition to his role at PUMA, Dylan is also recognized as a MACH Alliance Ambassador, actively promoting the benefits of modern, composable, and headless technologies in the industry. As an advocate for the MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) approach, he champions the adoption of scalable and flexible architectures that empower businesses to adapt quickly to evolving market demands.

Topics discussed include the following:

  • Joining PUMA
  • Worldwide Problem Solving
  • GraphQL Challenges
  • Ecosystem of Partners
  • Front-End Iterations
  • PUMA's Scale
  • Traffic Spikes
  • Leadership Buy-In
  • Tech for Tech
  • Doing Big Things
  • MACH Alliance
  • Milliseconds Make Millions
  • Big Learning
  • Iteration Speed

Links:Dylan Valade on LinkedIn
PUMA
MACH Alliance
Stellate

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Dylan Valade is an accomplished technology executive, serving as the Head of Global E-Commerce Technology at PUMA. With an unwavering passion for leveraging technology to drive business growth, Dylan has been instrumental in transforming PUMA's online presence and establishing the brand as a leader in the global e-commerce landscape. His strategic thinking and innovative approach have propelled PUMA to new heights, delivering forward thinking and progressive digital experiences for customers around the world.

In addition to his role at PUMA, Dylan is also recognized as a MACH Alliance Ambassador, actively promoting the benefits of modern, composable, and headless technologies in the industry. As an advocate for the MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) approach, he champions the adoption of scalable and flexible architectures that empower businesses to adapt quickly to evolving market demands.

Topics discussed include the following:

  • Computer Science Origins
  • PUMA Legacy Systems
  • Moving Faster
  • Simplifying Complexity
  • Centralizing Data
  • Sharing Ideas
  • PUMA Regions
  • Dependency Problems
  • Frontend Iterations
  • Headless
  • PUMA’s Scale
  • Spike Problems
  • Transforming PUMA’s Tech
  • Leadership Buy-In
  • Tech For Tech
  • MACH Alliance
  • Milliseconds Make Millions
  • Chasing Google
  • Page Loads
  • Sales Improvements
  • Iterating Quickly
  • DORA Metrics
  • Learning Faster
  • Engaging Consumers
  • PUMA’s Technology Stack
  • Open Source Choice
  • GraphQL’s Attractiveness
  • Scaling Faster
  • Salesforce
  • Sanity.io
  • Core Of Shopping
  • Organisational Problems
  • Adopting Stellate
  • Caching Complexities
  • Reducing Costs
  • Runaway Costs
  • Tool Standardization
  • Patience
  • Fast Enough
  • Importance Of Conferences

Links:Dylan Valade on LinkedIn
PUMA
MACH Alliance
Stellate

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Big Static Websites
  • Gatsby DSG
  • Unexpected Challenges
  • Gatsby’s Versatility
  • Designing Interactions Carefully
  • Footgun Balance
  • Upcoming Gatsby Improvements
  • GraphQL & Gatsby
  • Plugin Governance
  • Opinionated Gatsbyverse
  • DX
  • Optimizing For Silence
  • Community Strengths And Weaknesses
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Apollo Federation Dominance
  • Gatsby Data Layer
  • Gatsby Influences
  • Gatsbyverse
  • Gatsby’s Future Plans
  • Gatsby SSR
  • Reducing JAM-tax
  • Beyond React
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Early GraphQL Era
  • MeteorJS Days
  • Apollo
  • Spectrum
  • Before Schema Stitching
  • Federation Experiments
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Jumping Into Engineering
  • What Is AngularJS?
  • Initial Milestones
  • Hiring Culture Fits
  • Senior Role Models
  • Aiming To Be Useful
  • Learning From Patterns
  • Having A Chip
  • Good Managers
  • Behavior Improvements
  • Terrible Soft Skills
  • Filling Senior Roles
  • Mentorship Along The Way
  • Getting Chances
  • Team Work
  • Soft Skills
  • Code Velocity
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Math And Economics
  • Getting Into Coding
  • Hustling Without Experience
  • Finding A Mentor
  • Getting Opportunities
  • Impostor Syndrome
  • Having No CS Degree
  • Grit And Effort
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Abhi Aiyer is not only this podcast’s co-host, but also the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Gatsby. He has many years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of software and tools for startup companies, and has worked on high profile digital websites for popular US Athletes. Nowadays Abhi is changing how engineers build on the web at Gatsby.

Hear Abhi's perspective on:

  • Getting Into Coding
  • Hustling Without Experience
  • Finding A Mentor
  • Getting Opportunities
  • Impostor Syndrome
  • Having No CS Degree
  • Grit And Effort
  • Jumping Into Engineering
  • Initial Milestones
  • Hiring Culture Fits
  • Senior Role Models
  • Aiming To Be Useful
  • Learning From Patterns
  • Having A Chip
  • Good Managers
  • Behaviour Improvements
  • Terrible Soft Skills
  • Filling Senior Roles
  • Mentorship Along The Way
  • Getting Chances
  • Team Work
  • Soft Skills
  • Code Velocity
  • Early GraphQL Era
  • Meteor.js Days
  • Apollo
  • Spectrum
  • Before Schema Stitching
  • Federation Experiments
  • Apollo Federation Dominance
  • Gatsby's Data Layer
  • Gatsby Influences
  • Gatsbyverse
  • Gatsby’s Future Plans
  • Gatsby SSR
  • Reducing JAM-tax
  • Beyond React
  • Big Static Websites
  • Gatsby DSG
  • Unexpected Challenges
  • Gatsby’s Versatility
  • Designing Interactions Carefully
  • Footgun Balance
  • Upcoming Gatsby Improvements
  • GraphQL & Gatsby
  • Plugin Governance
  • Opinionated Gatsbyverse
  • DX
  • Optimizing For Silence
  • Community Strengths And Weaknesses
  • and much more…

LinksGitHub
GatsbyTwitter
Instagram
Medium

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • DataLoader pattern reflections
  • SQL autogeneration
  • Graphcool
  • Hasura
  • Modern databases
  • Software principles
  • Hard problems
  • Lessons learned
  • Big company collaboration
  • KISS
  • Local tooling
  • Federation problems
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • Latency
  • Observable solutions
  • p95 & p99 responses
  • Surprising GraphQL requests
  • Relay
  • p50
  • Observability @Netflix
  • Tracing shortcut
  • Resolver observability
  • Marc-André’s nightmares
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • The big error conversation
  • Throwing errors
  • Relay pagination
  • Battle tested error handling
  • GitHub API
  • Error types
  • Anticipating errors
  • Union pattern
  • Array solution
  • Weighing best approaches
  • Fake metrics
  • Status codes
  • GraphQL specific tooling
  • Schema errors
  • Validation errors
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • GraphQL @Netflix
  • Massive scale
  • Designing schemas
  • Public API designs
  • Schema patterns
  • Internal API secret sauces
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • Federated vs monolith trade-offs
  • Schema freedom side effects
  • Implementing conventions
  • Operational complexity @Netflix
  • Apollo Federation overhead
  • Enterprise GraphQL
  • Delaying to federate
  • Large schema considerations
  • Adoption of Apollo Federation
  • Big companies
  • GitHub monolith
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • GraphQL @Netflix
  • Shopify and GitHub
  • Shopify monolith
  • CEO support
  • GraphQL tooling @GitHub
  • Netflix architecture
  • Federated approach
  • Facebook’s GraphQL architecture
  • Schema stitching
  • Apollo federation
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Marc-André is a GraphQL TSC Member, and worked on GraphQL APIs for Shopify and GitHub in the past. He has now found his dream job as Senior Software Developer at Netflix. Over the past few years his focus has been on GraphQL, and he's the author of the highly recommended and widely read book "Production Ready GraphQL". Marc-André has a passion for tools and specifications that allow GraphQL API developers to provide better experiences. This led to many valuable talks and blog posts on the subject.

Hear Marc-André's perspective on:

  • Working for Netflix
  • GitHub and Shopify
  • Apollo Federation’s Adoption
  • Netflix’s architecture
  • Federated vs monolith trade-offs
  • enterprise GraphQL
  • Large schema considerations
  • Schema patterns
  • API building
  • Operational complexity @Netflix
  • Dream jobs
  • GraphQL @Netflix
  • Shopify monolith
  • CEO support
  • GraphQL tooling @GitHub
  • Federated approach
  • Facebook’s GraphQL architecture
  • Schema stitching
  • Schema freedom side effects
  • Implementing conventions
  • Enterprise GraphQL
  • Delaying to federate
  • Internal API secret sauces
  • and much more…

Links@__xuorig__
GitHub
productionreadygraphql.com

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Hear Peggy Rayzis' perspective on:

  • Apollo Odyssey’s future
  • GraphQL mobile growth
  • Newbie trip ups
  • GraphQL community shifts
  • Explosive ecosystem growth
  • Non-Developer adoption
  • and much more…

Peggy Rayzis is leading the Developer Experience org at Apollo. As Sr. Director she is in charge of Developer Relations and Education functions. Her department intersects the efforts of engineers, developer advocates, educators, writers, and filmmakers; who are all united in their mission to inspire and equip developers to be successful with using Apollo products.

Links:
@peggyrayzisApollo@apollographqlGitHubMedium

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Hear Peggy Rayzis' perspective on:

  • Federation Tooling
  • Distributed architecture
  • Query plans
  • Rust router
  • Open source vs commercial interests
  • Apollo Odyssey
  • Quality Learning Resources
  • and much more…

Peggy Rayzis is leading the Developer Experience org at Apollo. As Sr. Director she is in charge of Developer Relations and Education functions. Her department intersects the efforts of engineers, developer advocates, educators, writers, and filmmakers; who are all united in their mission to inspire and equip developers to be successful with using Apollo products.

Links:
@peggyrayzisApollo@apollographqlGitHubMedium

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Hear Peggy Rayzis' perspective on:

  • DX-Engineering collaboration
  • Apollo Doc strategy
  • Apollo products overview
  • Apollo Federation
  • GraphQL monolith bottlenecks
  • Disconnected Graphs
  • Modular schema code
  • and much more…

Peggy Rayzis is leading the Developer Experience org at Apollo. As Sr. Director she is in charge of Developer Relations and Education functions. Her department intersects the efforts of engineers, developer advocates, educators, writers, and filmmakers; who are all united in their mission to inspire and equip developers to be successful with using Apollo products.

Links:
@peggyrayzisApollo@apollographqlGitHubMedium

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Hear Peggy Rayzis' perspective on:

  • GraphQL's Rise
  • Apollo's growth
  • Becoming Director of DX
  • Adoption impact
  • Developer experience org
  • Apollo's secret sauce
  • Developer education
  • Developer trust
  • DX @ Apollo
  • "Friction Logs"
  • and much more…

Peggy Rayzis is leading the Developer Experience org at Apollo. As Sr. Director she is in charge of Developer Relations and Education functions. Her department intersects the efforts of engineers, developer advocates, educators, writers, and filmmakers; who are all united in their mission to inspire and equip developers to be successful with using Apollo products.

Links:
@peggyrayzisApollo@apollographqlGitHubMedium

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Hear Peggy Rayzis' perspective on:

  • Apollo
  • Developer Experience
  • GraphQL's rise
  • Community building
  • Doing DevRel right
  • Developer education
  • Apollo's secret sauce
  • Apollo product line
  • GraphQL issues
  • Open Source efforts
  • Future of GraphQL,
  • and much more…

Peggy Rayzis is leading the Developer Experience org at Apollo. As Sr. Director she is in charge of Developer Relations and Education functions. Her department intersects the efforts of engineers, developer advocates, educators, writers, and filmmakers; who are all united in their mission to inspire and equip developers to be successful with using Apollo products.

Links:
@peggyrayzisApollo@apollographqlGitHubMedium

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Nexus 1 => 2
  • Quick API rewrite
  • CRUD aspects
  • Velocity win
  • API design
  • Growing APIs
  • Changes to Nexus Prisma
  • Reliability & flexibility
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Prisma
  • Breaking APIs
  • Tactical breakage
  • What is Nexus Prisma?
  • Nexus origins
  • Schema-First
  • Code-First
  • Type-Safety
  • Upcoming Nexus version
  • Boilerplate speed-up
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Stellate loves Prisma
  • Learnings from v1
  • Prisma 2
  • Nexus transition
  • Prisma Client
  • Open source pillar
  • Aim for "magic"
  • Prisma Data Platform
  • Prisma @ Gatsby
  • Nexus Prisma
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Prisma
  • Nexus
  • Dogfooding open source
  • Impacting API decisions
  • nexus-result-field
  • 3 Failure categories
  • Type-Safety
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • What Is Prisma?
  • Prisma v1 vs v2
  • Prisma Schema
  • Prisma Client
  • Prisma Migrate
  • Prisma Data Platform
  • Team collaboration
  • Gotchas
  • Data Proxy
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Career history
  • Design studies
  • Being self-taught
  • jQuery to Node.js
  • Fine-Arts education
  • GraphQL early days and future
  • Complexity sweet spot
  • gRPC
  • Barrier to entry
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
@nexusgql

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Hear Jason Kuhrt's perspective on:

  • Prisma
  • Nexus
  • Dogfooding open source
  • GraphQL early days
  • Design education
  • Path to coding
  • Prisma learnings
  • Schema design
  • Data modeling,
  • and much more…

Jason Kuhrt is a software engineer and trained designer with an interest in art, design, engineering and humanities. Jason is currently working as the tech lead at Prisma, the popular open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. He is also the co-creator of Nexus, a code-first type-safe GraphQL schema builder.

Links:
@JasonKuhrt
kuhrt.me
@prisma
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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Open source monetization strategies
  • Open core models
  • Aligning incentives
  • Paid plugins
  • sponsorships
  • Support contracts
  • Building services
  • Golden pot
  • Encouraging companies
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Different open source models
  • Facebook / Meta approach
  • Corporation Independence
  • GraphQL Foundation
  • Funding struggle
  • Better funding options
  • Win-Win OS support
  • Widespread sponsorships
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • PostGraphile v5
  • Why closed source?
  • 3.5 year research project
  • Freedom to iterate
  • Graphile LLC
  • Journey to paid maintainer
  • Sponsorship
  • Grand rebuild
  • Client work
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Custom middlewares
  • Row-Level security policy
  • Strong security
  • Using external data sources
  • PostGraphile's ease of use
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • PostGraphile & PostgreSQL
  • PostgreSQL business layer
  • Extensibility
  • Schema process
  • Plugin-Based architecture
  • Industry usage
  • Heavy filters
  • PostgreSQL-backed GraphQL API
  • Graphcool
  • ORM battle
  • ORM to Front-End
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Managing GraphQL implementations
  • GraphQL Foundation independence
  • Supporting the ecosystem
  • Attending working groups
  • Graphile origin story
  • Software best practices
  • Data models
  • Taking over PostGraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Graphile Worker
  • Being database-centric
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • GraphQL TSC meetups
  • TSC nominations
  • Upcoming TSC members
  • Multiple working groups
  • Spec Working Group
  • How to contribute ideas
  • Fundamental spec changes
  • Start with problem
  • Agenda meetings
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Why specs are powerful
  • Agnostic tooling
  • Contributing ideas
  • Proposing changes
  • Early GraphQL adopters
  • Working Group involvement
  • Lee Byron
  • Technical Steering Committee responsibilities
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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In this clip Benjie Gillam, GraphQL TSC member, shares his perspective on:

  • Being bored in computer science classes in uni
  • How he built his career from a hobby
  • How he remembers the early GraphQL scene
  • Lee Byron's plan and accurate vision
  • @defer and @stream
  • The GraphQL Foundation
  • Independence from Meta
  • The GraphQL Working Group
  • and much more…

Listen to the full interview here: https://graphqlradio.com/episodes/postgraphile-and-beyond-w-benjie-gillam-graphql-technical-steering-committee-member

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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Hear Benjie Gillam's perspective on:

  • The many different models for open source
  • Dropping out of computer science classes
  • What the early GraphQL community was like
  • The Momentum of GraphQL
  • The independence from Meta
  • The GraphQL Foundation
  • The GraphQL Working Group
  • The upcoming PostGraphile release
  • Open source sponsoring
  • The widespread benefits of supporting open source work
  • Why he almost became a math professor
  • and much more…

Benjie Gillam is a community-funded open source developer and maintainer of PostGraphile from the UK. He's also a GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member, and a GraphQL trainer and consultant. Tune in to learn about his perspective on all things PostGraphile, GraphQL, working on open source, and the GraphQL Foundation.

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Jake Dawkins is a lead software engineer at Major League Soccer in New York. Tune in to learn about his work at MLS as well as how to use Apollo's new apollo-link-state library for state management in React applications.

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Ep 11 - Apollo Client 2.0 and beyond w/ James Baxley by GraphQL Radio

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Jason Lengstorf gave the keynote talk at this year's GraphQL summit! In this episode, we discuss his work on GrAMPS and GraphQL schema stitching in general.