1. Introduction to GraphQL for REST developers
WordCamp Miami 2017 Michael Dyer
Trapezoid, Inc.
3/26/2017
michael dot dyer at trapezoid dot com

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Michael Dyer, Class of 84
CTO and Co-Found Trapezoid.
South Florida-based company focused on platform integrity. “You can’t trust your software if you don’t trust your hardware.”
Built my first “full stack” site in 1995 (22 years ago)
3/26/2017
michael dot dyer at trapezoid dot com

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1995 Stack
Window NT 3.51 (released 1995)
oRreilly and associated Website
cgi (later moved to iis + isapi)
Novell Netware
West-Wind Web Connection
Logic was duplicated from the production system
FoxPro Database
3/26/2017
michael dot dyer at trapezoid dot com

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Challenges in 1995
ISDN 2x 64kb channels from the house
Anything above 400 ms was slow and had to be optimized
Average page turnaround 200 ms
A picture is worth 1000 words (4k)
THE PROBLEM? BANDWIDTH.
Is this a challenge in 2017?
3/26/2017
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GraphQL?
Developed internally by Facebook in 2012
Alternative to REST
ENOUGH SLIDES – LETS SEE IT !
3/26/2017
michael dot dyer at trapezoid dot com

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Links
graphql.org
graphql.org/swapi-graphql/
github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql
webonyx.github.io/graphql-php/
github.com/tim-field/graphql-wp
wordexpress.io/
roots.io/bedrock/
github.com/ermanc/ChromeiQL
github.com/iamdb/bedrock-wordpress-docker
3/26/2017
michael dot dyer at trapezoid dot com