Name: How Zillow is Creating a Next-generation Stack for Innovation
Start: 2022-04-20T18:00:00Z
End: 2022-04-20T18:00:38.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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The Apollo Graph Platform is the leading open-source GraphQL implementation with 17M downloads per month and the only end-to-end cloud management solution for GraphQL. Apollo unifies GraphQL across your apps and services, unlocking faster delivery for your engineering teams.

GraphQL APIs offer the promise of being able to evolve a schema in response to client needs, and a federated graph is no exception. But when multiple teams contribute to a federated schema you’ll want to make sure that you have processes in place that empower them to evolve the graph continuously and transparently, and in a way that won’t result in unexpected breaking changes for clients. 

In this session, we cover best practices for maintaining and evolving a federated graph as more and more teams contribute to and query data from it.

What you'll learn:
Essential best practices and tools for effective graph stewardship
How to balance the requirements of platform, service, and client teams
Organizing models for graph governance groups
What to think about when onboarding new teams to the graph

Best Practices for Effective Graph Stewardship

How did Netflix build an API architecture that scales to over 200M subscribers in 190 countries?  Bruce Wang, who leads API Systems at Netflix, will walk you through Netflix’s 14+ year API journey and lessons learned to address technology, product, and organizational challenges.

What you’ll learn:
• How Netflix designs an API system to meet ever-growing needs, from the early days of streaming to multiple product lines across a global audience
• How Netflix is decomposing its monolith and paving the path for a more composable, flexible architecture across a burgeoning supergraph
• How Netflix is using its Supergraph strategy to overcome organizational and technical challenges and empower teams to build great products through consistent, resilient, contract-focused APIs.

Netflix APIs, An Unexpected Journey

Booking.com is known for its experimentation culture and its investment in technology as a differentiator. Still, shipping changes became more arduous over time and through years of acquisitions as they struggled to gauge the impact of one team's changes on another. Also, delivering consistent experiences and feature parity across clients became challenging. They had begun the move to a service-oriented architecture. However, they needed a way for their front-end teams to compose their capabilities into new experiences while still empowering teams to experiment and innovate.

What you'll learn:
• How Booking.com migrated from a monolithic 3-tier architecture using a scalable supergraph that provides consistency, reliability, and insights and what they learned along the way.
• How their supergraph is helping them ship 40% faster, retire tech debt faster, and focus on higher-order initiatives.
• How to make a case for a supergraph in your organization and how to successfully onboard new teams.

This talk will be great for anyone who is a:
• Principal/Staff Engineer
• Engineering Manager / Director
• Software Architect, Sr/Chief Architect
• Principal/Staff Product Manager
• Sr. Director of Engineering
• VP Engineer
• VP of Product
• Chief Digital Officer

Modernize your stack and unlock innovation with supergraph

Like many early adopters of GraphQL, RetailMeNot started on a GraphQL monolith. However, their API team found themselves spending most of their time doing code reviews, and they had little time for innovating on their platform. Meanwhile, their frontend teams were often waiting for new capabilities to be added to their graph.

Join Hannah Shin and Kartik Kumar Gujarati from RetailMeNot engineering to learn how they made the switch from their monolith to a federated supergraph and accelerated their frontend development while freeing up their API team to innovate.

What you'll learn:
    • How to migrate from a GraphQL monolith to supergraph safely and incrementally.
    • What gains in both backend and frontend developer productivity RetailMeNot saw after migrating to a supergraph.
    • How to build a graph governance group to establish best practices, educate teams, and improve developer onboarding.

This talk will be great for anyone who is a:
• Principal/Staff Engineer
• Engineering Manager / Director
• Software Architect, Sr/Chief Architect
• Principal/Staff Product Manager
• Sr. Director of Engineering
• VP Engineer
• VP of Product 
• Chief Digital Officer

How RetailMeNot Migrated from a Monolith to a Supergraph

We all work with applications that are built on REST APIs, but what about the idea of a GraphQL API for existing apps in a large enterprise? This talk will unpack the story of PayPal’s GraphQL adoption journey, the approach we took, the alternatives we explored, the challenges we faced, and the technical approach of migrating to GraphQL APIs.

This talk will be great for anyone who is a:
• Principal/Staff Engineer
• Engineering Manager / Director
• Software Architect, Sr/Chief Architect
• Principal/Staff Product Manager
• Sr. Director of Engineering
• VP Engineer
• VP of Product 
• Chief Digital Officer
• CTO
• CIO

Migrating to GraphQL APIs in an Enterprise

Wayfair, one of the world’s leading home goods brands, faces a unique technical challenge. What’s the best way to build a technology platform that serves the needs of many audiences, including suppliers, partners, external API users, and internal developers while avoiding complex duplication of overlapping APIs?

Join Mark Faga, Senior Staff Engineer at Wayfair, to learn how Wayfair uses Apollo’s unified graph platform and new contracts capability to offer customization without complexity.

How Wayfair Delivers Bespoke Solutions at Scale

Before adopting the graph, Volvo’s websites and apps were powered by different endpoints, resulting in inconsistent experiences. Watch this talk on-demand as Stephan Lonntorp, Software Engineering Manager at Volvo Cars, discusses how they built a federated graph to deliver cohesive experiences throughout their digital properties.

How Volvo is Building a Better Digital Car Buying Experience

Watch on-demand as Rick Fast of Expedia shares how Expedia scaled their graph across multiple teams, lines of business, brands, and platforms. See what considerations drove them to evolve from code-based schema stitching to the declarative approach of Apollo Federation.

How Expedia Increased Developer Velocity by 3X

So you’re building or scaling your graph. Congratulations! Besides having to develop a robust technical plan, you’ll also have to navigate the complex world of human emotions and organizational politics. Dan Boerner, Apollo Graph Champion, has worked with 100s of graph champions.

In this talk, Dan shared advice on how to begin or scale your graph journey in 2022 successfully. He shared best practices for successfully overcoming technical and organizational challenges you’ll face when introducing a new technology like the graph to your company.

Embarking on your Graph Journey

If you are working to advance the data graph within your team, your group, or your company you’ll want to listen as Robbie Sawers, graph champion from Zillow, shares hard-fought lessons and deep learnings.

What you'll learn:
• How focusing on inspirational objectives and key results and giving your teams the creative freedom to execute lead to success.
• How successful champions map the technical benefits of a common graph to team, customer, and business benefits.
• Why it's so important to focus on incremental wins and agility to keep up progress and morale when roadblocks arise.

This talk will be great for anyone who is a:
• Principal/Staff Engineer
• Engineering Manager / Director
• Software Architect, Sr/Chief Architect
• Principal/Staff Product Manager
• Sr. Director of Engineering
• VP Engineer
• VP of Product 
• Chief Digital Officer
• CTO
• CIO

How Zillow is Creating a Next-generation Stack for Innovation

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