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Death, Taxes, and Deprecation
2025-09-11 · 20:10
When we launched our new GraphQL API at Netflix, it felt perfect—destined to power hundreds of millions of devices. Yet, change is inevitable. Even if your schema seems flawless today (which it isn't), requirements will shift, new features will emerge, and regrets will follow. GraphQL promises evolvability, allowing us to move forward without multiple API versions. But how does this hold up in practice? We mark fields as @deprecated, but what happens next? How can we embrace experimentation without entombing technical debt in the API? Does federation complicate things? Evolving your schema without breaking clients is easy, right? Right???. Drawing from experience with the Netflix API, this talk explores techniques for evolving your schema safely and painlessly. We'll cover the schema lifecycle—from experimentation to design, deprecation, and deletion. Attendees will leave with: - Schema design principles that facilitate change - Practical techniques for evolving GraphQL schemas - Strategies for managing a deprecation workflow Join us as we learn to face the inevitability of change with confidence and serenity. |
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Rethinking GraphQL Batching
2025-09-11 · 19:20
While working on the GraphQL composite schema specification, we have explored GraphQL batching and have come up with a variety of new approaches to tackle it. In this talk, I will walk you through why batching is still needed in GraphQL and what problems it solves today. We will also explore some wild experiments with GraphQL batching prototypes that can form business flows to aggregate data, mutate it, and subscribe to updates of the flow with subscriptions. This talk is full of experiments that are to be further explored. So, join me! |
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