Name: Dynamically Serving a GraphQL API with Custom Types at Runtime - Emily Li, Benchling
Start: 2024-09-11T11:30:00-0700
End: 2024-09-11T12:00:00-0700

Tuesday, September 10 - Thursday, September 12, 2024
In-Person Only | San Francisco, CA

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Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT

Skyline B-C

Existing GraphQL frameworks are well designed to handle statically defined types and resolvers. Here at Benchling, we faced the problem of serving a GraphQL API which incorporated customer-defined types at runtime with a dynamically generated graph that varies customer-to-customer. In this talk, I’ll describe some of the challenges in serving this GraphQL API, including dynamic generation of graph components and performance. Then, I’ll describe how we extended Strawberry (the GraphQL framework we decided to use) to handle our use cases as well as a graph-caching strategy that allowed us to dramatically improve the performance of serving the API.

Speakers

Emily Li

Software Engineer, Benchling

Emily is a Software Engineer at Benchling where she has spent the past two years building a dynamically generated GraphQL API.

Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Skyline B-C

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