Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 19 & 20, 2019

Ramnivas Laddad

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About Ramnivas
Ramnivas is a technologist, author, and presenter who is passionate about doing software right. He has been leading innovation in Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry since their beginning. Ramnivas has led a group in Cloud Foundry and started the Spring Cloud project. Ramnivas is the author of AspectJ in Action (1st ed, 2nd ed), the best-selling book on aspect-oriented programming that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative approach to solve real-world problems. He has at many leading industry events including JavaOne, ScalaDays, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, and O'Reilly OSCON.
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Speaking Sessions

  • GraphQL with Scala

    3:45 PM Saturday   Room: Rendezvous
    Communication is a difficult task that requires balancing between succinctness and clarity, asking the right questions, and receiving timely and useful information! Communication between computers is no different. Here we have to balance several conflicting requirements: avoiding over-fetching while reducing round trips, avoiding under-fetching while keeping payload size to a minimum, and doing this all the while ensuring data security. We faced many of these issues as we build our product, so we decided to give GraphQL a try.

    GraphQL, a relatively new data query and manipulation language, promises to simplify client-server communication. Used correctly, it can provide a clean and performant way to communicate. While GraphQL is a statically-typed query language, using it from a statically-typed language such as Scala presents interesting challenges and opportunities.

    This talk will explore what we learned from that adoption. We will focus on both server-side and client-side aspects of implementing GraphQL.