London GraphQL July
Hosted by
London GraphQL
In-Person
Address available to attendees
We missed you this time around!
Come and join us for the Summer edition of London GraphQL; Two talks on the most up-to-date GraphQL topics interspersed with pizza and networking, and a casual get together afterwards at a local pub.
Approximate Schedule:
6:00pm - Arrival, networking, pizzas 🍕
6:30pm - Greeting, event overview, code of conduct
6:40pm - The Apollo Language Server + Connectors + Rover: Refactor, Integration & Launch, Jonathan Rainer, Apollo
7:10pm - Pizza and networking break
7:45pm - Federation across nations: testing customer journeys on a divided graph with Stefano Cislaghi, American Express
8:15pm - Updates from the GraphQL working groups & Closing notes, Benjie Gillam, Graphile
9:00pm - Continued networking over drinks 🍻 at The Victoria, next to the venue
Hosted by American Express
NEW Location American Express office, Belgrave House, Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, SW1W 9AX
Call for Speakers for October
Show off a project, discuss a proposed feature, share your patterns and solutions
New and seasoned speakers welcome
Mentoring, help and slides review available
Flexible talk format
http://tinyurl.com/LondonGraphQLcfp
All events ran by the GraphQL Foundation adhere to the code of conduct: https://graphql.org/codeofconduct/
(Code of Conduct contact for this event is the MC Benjie, team@graphile.com or any member of the GraphQL TSC)
Presentations
Jonathan Rainer
The Apollo Language Server + Connectors + Rover: Refactor, Integration & Launch
In February this year Apollo launched the Apollo Language Server and plugins for VSCode, JetBrains IDEs and others. This talk tells the story of integrating the Apollo Language Server with Rover, Apollo's CLI tool.
The refactoring this launch took, the capabilities unlocked and the talk will also feature a demo of the Apollo Language Server with Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, showcasing how REST APIs can also be brought onto the Graph.
Stefano Cislaghi
Federation across nations: testing customer journeys on a divided graph
How are you doing your tests? Are you effectively covering all use cases and their unique nuances? How many times have you broken everything?Â
Let's delve into the complexities of testing a federated supergraph at scale, discuss on what are the issues and limits of testing GraphQL today and options for improving testing and increase confidence.
Benjie Gillam
Updates from the GraphQL Working Groups July 2025
This ad-hoc talk is just Benjie (and Michael Staib from ChilliCream!) riffing about some of the work that's going on in the GraphQL Working Groups currently. Topics covered include:
- GraphQL Spec Freeze July 2025 - a new spec cut is coming!
- Incremental Delivery
- Schema Coordinates
- Fragment Arguments
- Nullability
- Operation Descriptions
- Service Capabilities
- GraphQL-over-HTTP
- Partial Success Status Code
- Composite Schemas
- GraphQL.js v17
- GraphiQL v5
- OpenTelemetry
- Documentation Overhaul
- Community Working Group
- Website Redesign
- GET INVOLVED!
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We missed you this time around!
Platform Sponsors
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!
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
London GraphQL July
Hosted by
London GraphQL
In-Person
Address available to attendees
Come and join us for the Summer edition of London GraphQL; Two talks on the most up-to-date GraphQL topics interspersed with pizza and networking, and a casual get together afterwards at a local pub.
Approximate Schedule:
6:00pm - Arrival, networking, pizzas 🍕
6:30pm - Greeting, event overview, code of conduct
6:40pm - The Apollo Language Server + Connectors + Rover: Refactor, Integration & Launch, Jonathan Rainer, Apollo
7:10pm - Pizza and networking break
7:45pm - Federation across nations: testing customer journeys on a divided graph with Stefano Cislaghi, American Express
8:15pm - Updates from the GraphQL working groups & Closing notes, Benjie Gillam, Graphile
9:00pm - Continued networking over drinks 🍻 at The Victoria, next to the venue
Hosted by American Express
NEW Location American Express office, Belgrave House, Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, SW1W 9AX
Call for Speakers for October
Show off a project, discuss a proposed feature, share your patterns and solutions
New and seasoned speakers welcome
Mentoring, help and slides review available
Flexible talk format
http://tinyurl.com/LondonGraphQLcfp
All events ran by the GraphQL Foundation adhere to the code of conduct: https://graphql.org/codeofconduct/
(Code of Conduct contact for this event is the MC Benjie, team@graphile.com or any member of the GraphQL TSC)
Presentations
Jonathan Rainer
The Apollo Language Server + Connectors + Rover: Refactor, Integration & Launch
In February this year Apollo launched the Apollo Language Server and plugins for VSCode, JetBrains IDEs and others. This talk tells the story of integrating the Apollo Language Server with Rover, Apollo's CLI tool.
The refactoring this launch took, the capabilities unlocked and the talk will also feature a demo of the Apollo Language Server with Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, showcasing how REST APIs can also be brought onto the Graph.
Stefano Cislaghi
Federation across nations: testing customer journeys on a divided graph
How are you doing your tests? Are you effectively covering all use cases and their unique nuances? How many times have you broken everything?Â
Let's delve into the complexities of testing a federated supergraph at scale, discuss on what are the issues and limits of testing GraphQL today and options for improving testing and increase confidence.
Benjie Gillam
Updates from the GraphQL Working Groups July 2025
This ad-hoc talk is just Benjie (and Michael Staib from ChilliCream!) riffing about some of the work that's going on in the GraphQL Working Groups currently. Topics covered include:
- GraphQL Spec Freeze July 2025 - a new spec cut is coming!
- Incremental Delivery
- Schema Coordinates
- Fragment Arguments
- Nullability
- Operation Descriptions
- Service Capabilities
- GraphQL-over-HTTP
- Partial Success Status Code
- Composite Schemas
- GraphQL.js v17
- GraphiQL v5
- OpenTelemetry
- Documentation Overhaul
- Community Working Group
- Website Redesign
- GET INVOLVED!
Get in touch!
hi@guild.host