Why this talk?

EVERYTIME YOU
TALK ABOUT
IMPROVED
PERFORMANCE
AND YOU CAN'T
PROVE IT A
KITTEN DIES

Pros

• You have one unified API
   
• Other services are an implementation detail
   
• You can load just what you need

Cons

GraphQL

• You have one unified API
   
• Other services are an implementation detail
   
• You can load just what you need, but was this really the bottleneck before?

Let's get some certainty through data

Demo time

Opentracing

• Standard Interface for Performance Tracing
• Implementations
  • Zipkin
  • Jaeger

How to get a tracer

How to Start a SPan

How to Start a SPan

How to Enhance a Span

How to Transfer a Span

Apollo-opentracing

Quickly integrate tracing in your Apollo Backend

Getting Started

Building Tracing-aware Resolvers

Links

• Apollo-Opentracing
• sangria-slowlog