Building GraphQL APIs the easy way with Apollo and Tyk | GraphQL Hangout 51

The debates rage on about the pros and cons of building, securing and managing GraphQL APIs, but in order to truly understand how GraphQL works, you need to try it out for yourself.

Building production ready GraphQL APIs is more than just developing the API, you also need to consider security, management and publishing your APIs for consumption.

In this technical deep dive, Budha Bhattacharya, Product Evangelist at Tyk walks you through:
1. An overview of key GraphQL concepts, Apollo and Tyk
2. Setting up Apollo
3. Building your GraphQL schema
4. Writing your first resolver
5. Accessing your new GraphQL API
6. Adding your GraphQL API to Tyk
7. Securing your GraphQL API - rate limiting, query depth limiting, field-based permissions
8. Transforming a REST API into a GraphQL API using Tyk's Universal Data Graph
9. Combining REST APIs into a GraphQL API using Tyk's Universal Data Graph

0:00 Introduction
3:49 Agenda
6:55 Introduction to GraphQL
11:09 Basic GraphQL Concepts
17:04 What is Apollo GraphQL
17:41 Introduction to Tyk
18:57 Demo Overview
20:57 Demo - setup

#graphql #apollo #tyk #apimanagement #ApolloStudio #UniversalDataGraph #UDG
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