GraphQL at the Financial Times ... What can we Learn?

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GraphQL at The Financial Times - Viktor Charypar London React August 2015:

• Video: https://youtu.be/S0s935RKKB4
• Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/LondonReact/graph-ql
• Repo: https://github.com/Financial-Times/next-graphql-api

Notes:

• Gives a good overview.
• pre-dates GraphiQL - so uses POST requests in examples
• Backend APIs are storage-centric ... front-end APIs are _product_-centric
• acknowledges the complexity of abstracting all sub-queries (to various backend systems) into just one front-end query. The main issue with this is that because the GraphQL query will only return to the client once all the backend queries have resolved. So your API is only as fast as the slowest query ...