Honeypot Tech Talks: GraphQL, the Future of the API

In the first Honeypot Tech Talk of the year, Oleg Ilyenko, Yann Simon and Johannes Schickling will discuss GraphQL, Facebook's open-sourced query language, its use and the possibilities it offers developers and startups.

The event is organized by Honeypot, Europe's developer platform, and sponsored by TechCode.

"When we built Facebook's mobile applications, we needed a data-fetching API powerful enough to describe all of Facebook, yet simple enough to be easy to learn and use by our product developers. We developed GraphQL three years ago to fill this need." Facebook

7:15 - 7:45: Oleg Ilyenko, "Introduction to GraphQL: why, how and what?"

Author of Sangria, a scala GraphQL implementation

Twitter: @easyangel

GitHub: https://github.com/OlegIlyenko

7:45 - 8:15: Yann Simon, "Optimizing response times with GraphQL - an experiment with MongoDB and ElasticSearch"

Twitter: @simon_yann

Github: https://github.com/yanns

8:15 - 8:30: Johannes Schickling , "How to use GraphQL in the frontend today?"

In this lightening talk, Johannes Schickling, Co-founder of graph.cool, will talk about different ways to use GraphQL in your own project today. He'll also cover different technoglogies like Facbook's Relay and live code a concrete example using graph.cool backend.

Twitter: @_schickling

Githubg: https://github.com/schickling