Unleash Declarative Data Access with GraphQL- Kevin Dorosh & Sai Ekbote, Solo.io
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Unleash Declarative Data Access with GraphQL- Kevin Dorosh & Sai Ekbote, Solo.io

GraphQL is redefining the way that developers interact with APIs, putting application clients in control of the data they consume and placing new requirements on the platforms hosting these APIs. Understanding when to write code and when to let the platform do the work is a critical tradeoff to understand as you scale GraphQL adoption. In this talk, Kevin and Sai will share experience building GraphQL support directly into Envoy to support edge gateway and service mesh use cases. They will cover common deployment patterns, GraphQL-specific implications to security and policy controls, instrumenting existing mesh services (REST, gRPC, SOAP, Lambda) with GraphQL, and the benefits and tradeoffs between declarative and programmatic approaches to GraphQL composition. This will be a hands-on session with live demos and real talk, focused on patterns of adoption to easily implement GraphQL at scale. If you are a developer or platform engineer deploying GraphQL in your service mesh, this talk is for you!