GraphQL Amsterdam at HEMA - Spring Edition
Hosted by
GraphQL Amsterdam
In-Person
Address available to attendees
We missed you this time around!
Get ready and sign-up for our spring edition of Amsterdam GraphQL local at HEMA.
Please RSVP, at the reception we need your name to enter the building.
Agenda:
- 17:30-18:15 Pizza + drinks
- 18:15-18:30 GraphQL local announcements & Welcome by An Ngo
- 18:30-19:00 GraphQL with AWS AppSync — Building a Product API at HEMA by Ivan Jančić We built our first GraphQL API using AWS AppSync as part of HEMA's composable commerce migration. In this talk we share why we chose AppSync, how we designed our product API, and what we learned along the way.
- 19:00-19:30 Scaling GraphQL at Booking.com: A Look Behind the Scenes by Christian Ernst Discover how Booking.com implements GraphQL, leveraging Apollo to manage a massive graph. We'll explore the challenges and solutions for operating a graph at scale, handling thousands of developers and hundreds of daily changes, all while continuously improving the developer experience.
- 19:30-20:00 Beyond Introspection: AI and Schema-Aware Embeddings for GraphQL MCP by Thore Koritzius GraphQL introspection exposes schema structure, but most AI systems struggle to use it effectively because schemas are often too large and noisy for accurate query building in model context. In this talk we explore how schema-aware embedding models can capture GraphQL’s type system to enable semantic search and better tooling while also discussing proposals from the GraphQL AI Working Group for spec extensions for the MCP standard.
- 20:00-21:00 Network + drinks
About our host
HEMA is a Dutch retail icon celebrating 100 years this year, known for making well-designed everyday products accessible to everyone. Behind the familiar storefronts, HEMA has a growing engineering organization working with a modern tech stack to power both its physical and digital channels.
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We missed you this time around!
Platform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
GraphQL Amsterdam at HEMA - Spring Edition
Hosted by
GraphQL Amsterdam
In-Person
Address available to attendees
Get ready and sign-up for our spring edition of Amsterdam GraphQL local at HEMA.
Please RSVP, at the reception we need your name to enter the building.
Agenda:
- 17:30-18:15 Pizza + drinks
- 18:15-18:30 GraphQL local announcements & Welcome by An Ngo
- 18:30-19:00 GraphQL with AWS AppSync — Building a Product API at HEMA by Ivan Jančić We built our first GraphQL API using AWS AppSync as part of HEMA's composable commerce migration. In this talk we share why we chose AppSync, how we designed our product API, and what we learned along the way.
- 19:00-19:30 Scaling GraphQL at Booking.com: A Look Behind the Scenes by Christian Ernst Discover how Booking.com implements GraphQL, leveraging Apollo to manage a massive graph. We'll explore the challenges and solutions for operating a graph at scale, handling thousands of developers and hundreds of daily changes, all while continuously improving the developer experience.
- 19:30-20:00 Beyond Introspection: AI and Schema-Aware Embeddings for GraphQL MCP by Thore Koritzius GraphQL introspection exposes schema structure, but most AI systems struggle to use it effectively because schemas are often too large and noisy for accurate query building in model context. In this talk we explore how schema-aware embedding models can capture GraphQL’s type system to enable semantic search and better tooling while also discussing proposals from the GraphQL AI Working Group for spec extensions for the MCP standard.
- 20:00-21:00 Network + drinks
About our host
HEMA is a Dutch retail icon celebrating 100 years this year, known for making well-designed everyday products accessible to everyone. Behind the familiar storefronts, HEMA has a growing engineering organization working with a modern tech stack to power both its physical and digital channels.
Get in touch!
hi@guild.host