Moving beyond REST: GraphQL and Java with Pratik Patel

5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, Beer and Networking

6:00-6:15: Announcements

6:15-7:45: Moving beyond REST: GraphQL and Java with Pratik Patel

We’ve been using REST-based API development for over a decade now. While it provides a contract for both API developers and API consumers, it can be big, rigid and brittle. GraphQL can be used to either augment or replace REST based endpoints to provide faster and more flexible development. In this session, we’ll discuss GraphQL basics and look at how we create a GraphQL server and consume it in a client, using Java, of course!

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel wrote the first book on enterprise Java in 1996, Java Database Programming with JDBC. He currently works with the cloud and Java at IBM. He has designed and built applications in the retail, healthcare, financial services, and telecom sectors. Patel holds a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from UNC and has worked in New York, London, and Hong Kong. He currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

You can find Pratik on Twitter @prpatel (https://twitter.com/prpatel).

7:45: Door Prizes

* Various Amazon prizes
* IntelliJ IDE License (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)
* Pluralsight Subscription provided by DevelopIntelligence (http://www.developintelligence.com/)

8:00: After Meeting Networking

After meeting networking sponsored by Okta (https://developer.okta.com/). We meet at Ale House at Amato’s (2501 16th St, Denver, CO 80211).