GraphQL at the Edge with Stellate

08/17/22 • 54 min

In this episode, Jeff and Fran talk with Max Stoiber and Thomas Heyenbrock of Stellate, an innovative company working in the GraphQL space. Some of this episode's highlights include:

learning more about Stellate's core offerings around GraphQL edge caching and analytics, along with future ambitions around unifying third-party service data in GraphQL
discussing some of the challenges around caching GraphQL queries when compared to REST APIs
digging into the details of Stellate's WordPress plugin and their motivation behind creating it (hint: lots of people are using WPGraphQL)
sharing some thoughts on why developers reach for a headless architecture

Max's Twitter
Max's Website
Thomas' Twitter

In this episode, Jeff and Fran talk with Max Stoiber and Thomas Heyenbrock of Stellate, an innovative company working in the GraphQL space. Some of this episode's highlights include:

learning more about Stellate's core offerings around GraphQL edge caching and analytics, along with future ambitions around unifying third-party service data in GraphQL
discussing some of the challenges around caching GraphQL queries when compared to REST APIs
digging into the details of Stellate's WordPress plugin and their motivation behind creating it (hint: lots of people are using WPGraphQL)
sharing some thoughts on why developers reach for a headless architecture

Max's Twitter
Max's Website
Thomas' Twitter

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