159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal

GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire – talks with Jason and Patrick about how the secret sauce gets made. They dive deeply from how APIs function to having them managed in practice – among several other topic, making this a must-listen episode.
00:01:19 Introductions
00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming
00:05:48 Plinko
00:13:06 Coursera
00:23:28 The question of API development
00:30:30 API layer functionality
00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON
00:39:08 GraphQL
00:42:49 Worse than an API call
00:49:15 The potential REST minefield
00:53:41 JSON Web Tokens
01:11:34 Scaling writes
01:15:17 Careers with Hasura
01:22:35 Farewells
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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Links:
Tanmai Gopal:
Website: https://hasura.io/blog/@tanmaig/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanmaigo
Github: https://github.com/coco98
Hasura:
Website: https://hasura.io/
Careers: https://hasura.io/careers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ
Github: https://github.com/hasura
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hasura
Others:
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Strategy-audiobook/dp/B07R6XQ8YP
Modern Application Development (IIT Madras, archived): https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/106/106/106106156/
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