Stephen Spalding, Jory Burson, Clarice Abreu, Aileen Chen
Large engineering organizations now run GraphQL at the center of their product stacks, serving billions of requests across web, mobile, and internal clients. The questions have shifted accordingly. The interesting problems are no longer about whether to adopt GraphQL, or how to write a resolver. They are about what it takes to operate GraphQL reliably, evolve it safely, and scale the humans who work on it. This panel brings together engineers from companies running GraphQL in production at large scale to compare notes on the realities of that work. Each panelist has spent years operating a GraphQL gateway or federated graph that fronts hundreds of services and thousands of fields, owned by dozens of teams. The goal of the session is a candid, technical conversation about what has worked, what has not, and what they would do differently. This session is intended for engineers and tech leads who already run GraphQL in production or are planning to, and who want to hear from peers operating at similar or larger scale. Familiarity with GraphQL fundamentals is assumed. No introductory material will be covered.
Netflix, Engineer
Stephen is a member of the Edge API team at Netflix and a member of the GraphQL TSC. His team develops and operates the Netflix API platform. This is the nexus point where hundreds of microservices are aggregated into a single API that delivers the Netflix experience for the hundreds of millions of Netflix devices worldwide.
The Linux Foundation, VP of Standards
Jory Burson is the VP of Standards for the Linux Foundation, where she helps projects identify opportunities for standardization and collaborate on specifications. She is an open source developer-turned-standards practitioner, who is passionate about bringing the best of open source and standards-making best practices to bear in open projects. Jory has worked with several organizations including OASIS Open, W3C, Ecma International, and the web standards consultancy Bocoup, to name a few.
Brex, Senior Software Engineer
Clarice Abreu leads the roadmap and strategy for the Brex's GraphQL platform. She drives initiatives to improve schema quality, schema validation and observability, helping teams build and evolve a large-scale federated GraphQL architecture.
Airbnb, Staff Software Engineer
Join two transformative days of expert insights and innovation to shape the next decade of APIs!