GraphQL: How to Persuade the Server to Fit the App
summary
The talk explains using GraphQL to give a single adaptable API entrypoint for mobile clients of a growing backend that becomes microservice-based. It describes how the presenter’s team adopted GraphQL for Android, the specific problems they faced (excess requests and over‑fetched data) and the practical solutions they used to overcome those challenges.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:49Microservice architecture problems
- 11:19GraphQL solution
- 20:10Android GraphQL clients
- 30:55Query optimization in multi-module projects
- 42:12Summary and future of client
- 43:15Q&A
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