GraphQL Observability

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Shows how to add real production observability for GraphQL by instrumenting ApolloServer and exporting vendor‑agnostic traces to tracing backends; demo wires ApolloServer + OpenTelemetry (and OpenTracing adapters) to Jaeger, ships GraphQL tracing to Apollo Studio, and enriches Jaeger traces show field-resolution spans including outbound I/O. The code runs live in the demo, traces appear in Jaeger with spans and tags, and the uploader links full code and conference recording.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 4:26Setup
3. 6:38Demo
4. 7:14Outro

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