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API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API.
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Matt Debergalis on GraphQL and Data Modelling in the Enterprise
In this podcast, Matt Debergalis, founder and CTO at Apollo, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the motivations for GraphQL, the Apollo Data Graph platform, data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems.
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Ashley Williams on Web Assembly, Wasi, & the Application Edge
Today, on The InfoQ Podcast Wes Reisz talks with Cloudflare’s Ashley Williams. Williams is a core team member of Rust and Rust Web Assembly teams. The two talk about Web Assembly and what it’s being used for today: application edge, Wasi, Cloudflare Workers, and where she sees wasm/wasi going in relationship to the edge.
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GitHub’s Phil Haack on Moving from Engineering to Management
In this podcast, Wes Reisz, chair of the QCon conferences in San Francisco, London and New York talks to Phil Haack, an Engineering Director at GitHub focused on software pushed mostly to the desktop. He’s shipping software like GitHub Desktop, GitHub Extensions for Visual Studio, and the Atom text editor. Phil joined GitHub in 2011 and is a prominent member of the .Net community.