Session + Live Q&A

The GraphQL Developer Experience at Twitter

This talk will give you a peek into the day-to-day reality of working with a GraphQL API at scale, taking you on a journey through the API development process at Twitter. Michelle will share the unique challenges Twitter faces, plus the strategies and tooling they've built to handle these challenges.


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Michelle Garrett

Software Engineer @Twitter

Michelle Garrett is a Software Engineer at Twitter, where she is part of the team building Twitter's large scale GraphQL API. Prior to Twitter, Michelle worked on a GraphQL implementation at Condé Nast, powering the international Vogue websites. Michelle is an organiser of Node Girls, which...

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Date

Tuesday Apr 5 / 11:50AM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Churchill, G flr.

Track

Building and Evolving APIs

Topics

GraphQLTwitter

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