Snakes and ladders of GraphQL on our way to the perfect API

My name is Aleksandr, and I am an engineer and technology enthusiast based in Berlin. I work as an engineering manager. My passion is to make people’s lives easier with technology
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My name is Aleksandr, and I am an engineer and technology enthusiast based in Berlin. I work as an engineering manager. My passion is to make people’s lives easier with technology
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Gave the talk “Snakes and ladders of GraphQL on our way to the perfect API” at the GraphQL Wroclaw group’s meetup.
Our team has been working for the past 18 months on porting AMBOSS functionality to GraphQL API. During this time we faced some technical and organizational challenges. The talk describes the experience of this migration process, what caused questions, and how we as a team approached them.
The slides can be downloaded here
The talk and slides are in English. There were five speakers in total: two from Berlin and three from Wroclaw. More details are on the event’s page at meetup.com.


