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Laurin Quast

Breaking up With Inputs (Without Breaking Your Users)

Peahi
Schema Design + Evolution + Governance

Session description

Deprecating fields and removing them in GraphQL is tricky itself, but tooling can help identifying such based on statically analysing operations or traffic. But, deprecating inputs is a whole different challenge! Once clients start sending arguments or input object fields, removing or changing them can break integrations in subtle ways, as you do not know which fields might be used in the future and which ones might not, especially if you are running GraphQL at scale. In this lightning talk we will explore possible options for making this whole process more safe in the present, and dip into how it could look in the future!


Session speakers

Laurin Quast

The Guild, ?

returning speaker

Laurin Quast is a developer that started exploring GraphQL, by leading API development at a start-up. Realizing that there are still many unsolved problems and challenges within the space, he started contributing to famous JavaScript libraries, such as GraphQL Code Generator. Diving deeper, the transition into becoming a full-time role at The Guild was inevitable. Currently, he is leading the Hive Console team helping teams scale GraphQL across teams and organizations.

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