Developing Serverless Applications with GraphQL

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Speed of delivery is something that everybody is worried about nowadays when building an app. One of the ways to get things out fast is to use as many managed services as possible, another way is to use GraphQL. What if you combine these two approaches? In this talk, I will give a brief introduction of what is GraphQL, and how it relates to serverless. I will show you how to architect serverless applications using GraphQL.

I will introduce then AppSync service and its characteristics. AppSync is an AWS managed service that has a lot of really interesting functionalities out of the box, for example, authentication or native connection with DynamoDB. Then we will move to a practical part where I will show you how to get started with your first Serverless GraphQL application using AppSync.