TV 2 is a commercial broadcasting station based in Denmark. Beside traditional broadcasting TV we also run a video streaming service called TV 2 PLAY which serves both video on-demand and TV 2s own live channels.

Based on TV 2 PLAY I will be talking about our journey from REST based APIs to a GraphQL API, our motivation for doing so, and what we have learned.

In the talk I will:

• briefly talk about the history of TV 2 PLAY form monolith to microservices and our motivation for making that decision.
• describe the issues we were facing with a REST API and why it wasn’t a good fit for us. introduce some context by showing how the current architecture of TV 2 PLAY looks today.
• talk about why we chose to change to a GraphQL API, what problems it solves for us and some of the problems we have run into.
• briefly touch on the anatomy of GraphQL vs. REST.
• demo a simple GraphQL application with downstream services and how to query the API.

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Speakers for A Journey to GraphQL:

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Metadata for A Journey to GraphQL

To be recorded: Yes

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URLs for A Journey to GraphQL

Slides: https://github.com/jimmikristensen/talk-a-journey-to-graphql

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Schedule for A Journey to GraphQL

• Friday, Aug 9th, 2019, 17:00 (CEST) - Friday, Aug 9th, 2019, 18:00 (CEST) at Speakers Tent