Tim Couper is the Chief Architect at 1EdTech with 20+ years of software and infrastructure development across a wide range of industries, including Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, and Education.

GraphQL is celebrating ever-increasing success in the API zeitgeist: a flexible language for describing precise, consumer-defined queries to data sources in a language capable of describing complex relationships between entities of any shape we can imagine. However, to a developer coming from the world of OData, it may seem quite limited at first: how do I filter my data or build complex aggregations? How do I avoid race conditions when I start changing it?

In this talk, we'll look at the OData specification, and discuss a number of its ideas that (I think) would be worth adopting into the culture of GraphQL. We'll look at the differences between the two ecosystems, the open source projects that try to reconcile those differences, and probably end up inventing a third competing standard along the way.

Join Dan from rconnect.tech as he introduces GQLPT, a npm library that transforms plain text into GraphQL queries. Learn how to set up a TypeScript instance of GQLPT and replace your existing GraphQL calls with simple plain text queries. Dan will also dive into advanced topics, showing you how to take GQLPT to production using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and vectorized embeddings. This talk is perfect for developers looking to streamline their GraphQL workflow and leverage AI for more efficient API interactions.

The GraphQL community has come together to standardize how people can build distributed systems with GraphQL as an orchestrator. In this talk I will explain the general idea that we have for GraphQL as an Orchestrator in this space and how the new specification is tackling this. We will look at the progress we have made since last GraphQL Conf in the GraphQL composite schema working group and also get some sneak peaks at our early RFCs and prototypes. I will outline how this new specification is taking the best ideas of existing solutions in the market to make the next big leap towards mainstream adoption. This will allow anyone to build tooling by implementing the spec or parts of the spec that seamlessly integrate with other vendors.