From Relay to Apollo, a story of GraphQL clients

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Hudl adopts GraphQL across services, first shipping a tiny DIY GraphQL client for messaging that still runs in production after ~4 years, then using Relay for a complex web app before migrating to Apollo to gain simpler APIs, better docs and integrations with Redux; migration cuts the minified gzipped bundle roughly in half, improves error resilience and debugging, but Apollo v2 breaking changes (removing Redux) force selective upgrades and some retained legacy state.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:20GraphQL history
3. 8:29Relay introduction
4. 13:31Huddle’s GraphQL journey
5. 18:05Switching to Apollo Client
6. 26:34GraphQL lessons
7. 29:24Closing remarks

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