A Startup Stack - Postgres & GraphQL

Chris & Josey are joined by Gordon Johnston from Lineup Ninja to talk about Postgres, GraphQL, Firebase, and the world of data storage. Interspersed with the tech talk, are moments of developers ranting about their frustrations-- A normal show it seems.

TOPICS

• Brief explanation of Postgres and GraphQL for nontechies


• A review of some of the pros and cons REST to give some context as why GraphQL arose.


• An introduction to GraphQL, it’s advantages and why we chose to move to a GraphQL solution from Firebase.


• A quick overview of Postgres and it’s advantages.


• An overview of GraphQL/Postgres landscape (Hasura, Postgraphile, Prisma)

LINKS

GraphQL: https://graphql.org/

Open API - https://www.openapis.org/

Swagger - https://swagger.io/

AWS IAM - https://aws.amazon.com/iam/

MUSIC FROM THE CCMIXTER COMMUNITY

Snazzy Intro: On Top of the World by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/texasradiofish/50478 Ft: John Fletcher, Patricia Edwards, ElRon XChile, Speck, alexplaysguitar

Live Show Starting Soon: cdk - Sunday by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755

Live Show Outro: ＭＩＬＬＥＮＮＩＡＬＳ by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/57150

Special Guest: Gordon Johnston.