Unleash Declarative Data Access with GraphQL

Explore the transformative power of GraphQL in API interactions through this 31-minute conference talk by Kevin Dorosh and Sai Ekbote from Solo.io. Gain insights into scaling GraphQL adoption, understanding when to code versus leveraging platform capabilities. Discover how GraphQL support is integrated directly into Envoy for edge gateway and service mesh use cases. Learn about common deployment patterns, security and policy control implications specific to GraphQL, and methods for instrumenting existing mesh services with GraphQL. Evaluate the benefits and tradeoffs between declarative and programmatic approaches to GraphQL composition. Engage with live demos and practical adoption patterns for implementing GraphQL at scale. Ideal for developers and platform engineers deploying GraphQL in service mesh environments.