Team

Adam Stankiewicz, Dave Ormsbee, Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated), George Babey, Brittney Exline (Deactivated), Greg Sham (Deactivated)

Goals

• Reach decision on GraphQL for building apps today
• If we can't reach a decision, let's figure out how
• Not immediately blocked, but wrapper question is on the horizon

Making the Decision

• Operational impact
  • Separate servers to maintain
  • Node in production (new system)
  • Monitoring, scaling, etc.
  • Devops potential stakeholder
• Team impact
  • New tech to Enterprise
    • Less concerned about this, because "everything is new"
    • Risk points are integrations with the existing systems
    • OK with extra efforts for the experimentation benefit
• Architectural vision constraints:
  • GraphQL as horizontal monolith/gateway/API aggregator/potential SPOF
  • BFF: one GraphQL instance per domain
  • GraphQL lives at the service layer
• Devops should be an A in this decision
  • Need: understanding of scope of operationalizing this pattern

• Implementing team is the D

Findings

• BFF vs universal GQL schema decision can be deferred
• Implementation details of enterprise GQL schema vs. universal GQL schema currently unknown
• Operational cost currently unknown

Miscellaneous:

• Adam: Here's the talk I briefly mentioned from Spotify about how they think about & build microservices for their products. Feel free to take a look if interested:
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