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The GraphQL Developer Experience at Twitter
This talk will give you a peek into the day-to-day reality of working with a GraphQL API at scale, taking you on a journey through the API development process at Twitter. Michelle will share the unique challenges Twitter faces, plus the strategies and tooling they've built to handle these challenges.
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Michelle Garrett
Software Engineer @Twitter
Michelle Garrett is a Software Engineer at Twitter, where she is part of the team building Twitter's large scale GraphQL API. Prior to Twitter, Michelle worked on a GraphQL implementation at Condé Nast, powering the international Vogue websites. Michelle is an organiser of Node Girls, which...
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Wednesday May 11 / 10:10AM EDT (50 minutes)
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