Xinjiang Shao
Software Engineer at Peapod Digital Labs
GraphQL Exploration
Xinjiang Shao
2020/11/11
Problem
- The increasing amount of microservices (20+)
- Changing Landscape for API Consumers (Native App, Web App, Conversational App, etc.)
- Performance Concerns
- How many API calls for powering up some design
- Return payload with more than we need
- Caching
Why GraphQL?
At the time, our iOS and Android apps were thin wrappers around views of our mobile website. While this brought us close to a platonic ideal of the “write once, run anywhere” mobile application, in practice it pushed our mobile-webview apps beyond their limits. ...
We were frustrated with the differences between the data we wanted to use in our apps and the server queries they required.
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/09/14/core-data/graphql-a-data-query-language/
Our Proof of Concept
Demo Time
Next Steps
- Hosting GraphQL Server
- Data Modeling
- Production Client App Integration
GraphQL Exploration
By Xinjiang Shao
GraphQL Exploration
A Proof of Concept for GraphQL in Peapod Digital Labs
