A relaxed discussion and Q&A with GraphQL TSC member Benjie Gillam. There is excitement in the air as Benjie celebrates the 10th anniversary of his open source project PostGraphile. This is your chance to ask Benjie about GraphQL, what are his preferred workflows, PostGraphile V5, the new GraphQL Golden Path or anything at all including his favourite colour or what he had for breakfast!

The session will be conducted by Taz Singh with participation from the audience.

Curious about how a consumer-grade social application’s data architecture has been designed? Taz will review the end-to-end GraphQL architecture used at Guild. Everything from Relay to Persisted Operations cached on Cloudflare Workers to efficient Postgres schema resolution. The session is intended to be half show-and-tell and half open discussion with the audience.

An open discussion with GraphQL experts and the audience live in New York City to chat about what they're seeing in the GraphQL space 🙌🗽

Ever wonder about the full data stack powering Guild? Taz will give you an in-depth show & tell of the end-to-end architecture, covering everything from:

• Database: how Postgres is used to manage & authorize deeply interconnected social data
• GraphQL server: how that Postgres database gets transformed into GraphQL
• GraphQL Persisted Operations: security & efficiency gains implemented on the server
• Fine-grained caching: how all data provided via GraphQL is cached for read-after-write consistency
• Server-side rendering: ensuring there isn't reflows / loading spinners/ re-rendering on initial load due to data fetching
• Client-side rendering: efficiently fetching data via Relay
• Data catalog: using GraphQL as a data catalog, to power all data fetching across Guild (i.e. not only the web app that you'd expect)