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API Workshop Series

GraphQL Architecture Master Class

Pro Tips for Architecting a Data Access Layer With GraphQL

WHEN: Master Class has finished. View on-demand on the YouTube Playlist

APIs are the de facto standard for connecting and sharing data. Yet, API architectures have not evolved. Two things that databases have done well — operating declaratively and knowing how to federate data — stand to revolutionize how APIs are built and managed.

This master class takes you on a journey to explore the key tenets of GraphQL as a new architecture for APIs and how the future of federated access to data is shaping up. Join us for one or all five sessions. Each episode is filled with pro-tips from database and API experts plus lessons learned from working with hundreds of API and database technologists on business-critical implementations.

  1. Build Quicker. Run Better. 80% of the GraphQL code you’re writing and maintaining is unnecessary! How to write less, more efficient GraphQL. Anant & Carlos: Sept 28

  2. How to Reduce Security Risks in API Architectures. You know how to secure REST endpoints. But are you worried about securing GraphQL? Carlos & Sridhar: Oct 5

  3. How to Implement a GraphQL Layer when Data Resides in more than a Database. If you have more than PostgreSQL or any one database backend, this session is for you. Anant & Carlos:Oct 12

  4. Federated Data: How to Massively Simplify your Approach. Current approaches to federated data access are much more complicated than necessary. (Oct 19)

  5. How to Design GraphQL for a Global Scale. Your applications are global. How to ensure that your infrastructure keeps pace. (Oct 26)

Presented By

Join Anant, Carlos, Bobbie, Sridhar and other guests -- all experts in database and API technologies, for one or more of these sessions. Bring your ideas and questions - we look forward to lively and interactive sessions.

Anant Jhingran

Cofounder & CEO

Anant is StepZen's CEO. Having spent time as IBM Fellow, CTO of IBM’s Information Management Division, CTO of Apigee, and product leader at Google Cloud, Anant has spent his career at the forefront of innovation in databases, ML, and APIs. At StepZen, Anant is enjoying bringing his love of these technologies together to simplify, accelerate and scale front-end development.

Anant Jhingran

Carlos Eberhardt

Customer Success

Carlos has been working with internet technologies since the early 1990s. From Fortune 50 enterprises to small startups, he's worked across a variety of industries. He lives in Minnesota with is wife, three daughters, three cats, two dogs, two hamsters, a turtle, and some fish. When he's not buying pet food, he has fun at StepZen, trying to solve problems.

Carlos Eberhardt

Bobbie Cochrane

Software Engineer

Bobbie is a senior research scientist with 25+ years of experience at IBM and in the information technology and services industry. She’s a strong research professional skilled in blockchain, scalability, IBM DB2, cloud, computer science, and enterprise software.

Bobbie Cochrane

Sridhar Rajagopalan

Cofounder & CTO

Sridhar leads Engineering at StepZen. Sridhar was a senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google, combining software and systems engineering skills to help build and run large-scale, massively distributed systems. Before that he was a senior engineer and architect at Apigee, and served for two decades as a member of technical staff and architect at IBM.

Sridhar Rajagopalan