How Netflix Scales Its API with GraphQL Federation 

"We did all this work and still ended up with a Monolith." Cue space music.

I love the abstract explanation then deep dive. It gives me time to process the information and make meaning of it

GraphQL is cool, but he doesn't know what all the user service providers are. For that, he has to go to Galactus.

It really seems like this strategy of federating depends on having a few near-universal keys for data shared across a constellation of services that the aggregator can use for joining pieces together.

13:51 kotlin code reads rather nicely 👌

Falcor's internal support was dropped several years ago. I can deduce they've been trying to migrate to GraphQL for several years.

I want her to read me bedtime stories, sick of Karl Pilkington

Netflix have best minds at dispose but I am curious about how do we bake in observability into federation as all we have is single post endpoint with different queries.

How was the graph animations made? I'm looking for something to visualise graphs.

So you had an API that got too messy, so you broke it up and then aggregated requests in 1 endpoint. Then that grew too messy so that was broken up and now the top endpoint is Federation. So what happens when that gets too big?? Some new fancy library called something like constellation?

Netflix is really bold, innovative and united, hard to imagine this would be possible in any other companies at this level.

Excellent. Thanks.

wait, so FalcorJS exist or am I hallucinating?

How the mutations work in federation model?

How do you handle package (subscription types) using GraphQL, in the resolvers or? And are the resolvers communicating directly with the database or you have some service in front of it?

I can listen to her all day 😍. Totally my type. Chemex and wine bottles, what more could one ask for

Great video!

amazing

this is just lit

best voice ever

[WARNING] Very very loud meme at around 9:00 mins

vim pelo Thales😄

The sound effects are very annoying. Besides that nice talk

Would you trust your api federation to a haircut that bad?

These bottles of red were distracting me all the time.

Stephen looks like a James Bond villain.

Hard to think that Jennifer is senpai in this realm with that voice .......

is it possible I am in love with Jennifer Shin without ever meeting her & seeing her for the first time on this vid ? :)

Please help me

she's cute

That girl glass is way too big

The sound effects in this video are not just horrible, but absurd!! If it wasn't for the very cute Jennifer, I'd down-vote this video...

The BGM is from the movie called Only God Forgives. Thank me later. Also i didnt shazamed it.

I am not clear, there are only 4000 films on Netflix. Why you need to create so complicated federation. I know russian websites, there are hundreds of thousands of films, and everything is much simplier.

please open source the graphql gateway too :)

really nice editing but is the laugh track really necessary?

Me still learning migration from Soap to Rest and then GraphQL ruin my rest

I have to say, this was an incredible way to explain the value gained by beginning with almost a "demo" of what created the problems. The visualizations also helped immensely! Thank you!

So basically they built microservices on top of their microservices

Imagine being an Edge Engineer at Netflix just to be reduced to your looks or voice, rather than having comments about the architectural ideas. I swear some of you ...

Great talk, hands on and in depth. Good explanation as well! Thanks

ASMR feels

This was a fantastic video, new to the channel.

Love her voice

Very interesting! Much innovation! How did you all create the Graph visualizations?

Thanks to InfoQ. How often is it you get to study distributed systems in ASMR.

This is amazing! Love the graph visualizations.

their slack support channel as well, their slack support channel as well

Wonderful, wonderful explanation. Best from the field explanation I have encountered so far! Great job explaining this complex topic guys from Netflix!

what s her mic?

oh my. Netflix Genesis

FALCOR mentioned! Cool look at what path I’m starting to go down

Eyeglasses scale

hi jennifer. what is a woman?

Great presentation, did a great job of explaining a complex topic. Graph visualisations were neat.

wow, this is great explanation which starts up from a very simple problem and builds up into interesting use case. examples, animations, background music, jennifer.. beautiful!

Apollo federation doesn't support subscriptions. It's really grinding my gears.

What tool is being used to render the graphs in 3D?

Great talk. The best video I found on the usage of GraphQL Federation. Thanks a lot.

amazing amazing amazing talk. Thankyou so much for sharing :D

I wonder how many different queries they have.

Amazing

Thanks for the talk! I'm curious how would a federated mutation look like ? As each domain service may fail a mutation individually, I assume the front end has to be designed to keep partial success in mind ?

8:36 jesus fucking christ

So the family is coming for lunch, you have a big family. You decided to go all out and bake a few different cakes. It's quite difficult to feed everyone and distribute the cakes whilst they are whole so we slice them up and give everyone a spoon, now everybody is happily tasting the different cakes distributed across the table with multiple spoons until someone comes along and says, let's get rid of all the spoons and use a single bigger spoon so we only have one feed and hopefully if all goes well this new spoon will be able to feed us all at once. :@ The End Are the speakers humanoids? they kinda come across as robotic lol... GraphQL no doubt has its benefits in terms of selectively plucking properties, aggregation of multiple graphs when federated, typed values, etc, but my gosh schemas can become huge when made up of multiple fragments and maintenance seems to increase from my experience, also Rest to graphQL conversion is enough to make you want to smash your workstation :|

nice talk, thanks!

where's primagen doing vscode ;)

I know a lot how Netflix is doing it, but not so much about Prime Video or rest! All thanks to how much Netflix open source or take pain to make us understand what they are doing.

laugh tracks are dead in 2021 in todays world the user decides if something is funny or not and dont like to be told by a laugh track "this is funny, now laugh" but i guess a compromise was made between making the video more enjoyable letting the presenter have a personality with some jokes/funny story but at the same time sigifying with the laugh track that this was a lighthearted joke/event and not incompetency on the presenters part.

MY GOD she's gorgeous!!

I have been implementing graphql for almost 2 years in my organization, we also implement graphql federation, so we find out that graphql federation cause a query complexity (n + 1), so if we query an array , which every object in the array , does federated /extend to other schema in other service, this will cause too many query, especially if the logic on the core federated schema talk to database, this is really time consumjng and resource consuming when a query is executed, thr we try implementing dataloaders with federation, but the samething happen (n + 1), do you guys have solution for this?, we currently use golang with graphql , we also implement apollo gateway as the gateway

So, aren't we going to talk about how hot she is? I had no interest in graphQL, until I saw her talking about it :D

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My new bible

religious theme introduction is dumb. Just get to the story

The intro was off-putting. Unless your focus is how your problem applies to others. It's just advertisement.

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