Name: Rethinking GraphQL Execution - Raymie Stata, Airbnb
Start: 2025-09-08T14:25:00+0100
End: 2025-09-08T14:55:00+0100

Monday, 8 September - Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
In-Person Only | Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Monday September 8, 2025 14:25 - 14:55 BST

Grote Zaal

To ease life for the roughly 1,000 developers who contribute regularly to our GraphQL interface, Airbnb has a highly opinionated developer API that we believe eases life for both developers and the operators who maintain the service. In the past, this API was implemented on top of a traditional, specification-based GraphQL engine, which supported agility as we evolved our opinionated approach to resolvers. As that approach matured, we saw opportunities to build a more efficient engine to support them.

This talk describes our new GraphQL engine. Key elements in our design include:

- Refactoring query execution into distinct resolution and completion phases.

- A query planner that optimizes and orchestrates the execution of those phases.

- A new data structure that is the intermediary between the two phases, a data structure that allows for principled communication between the many resolvers involved in executing a query

Speakers

Raymie Stata

Contractor, former Technical Fellow, Airbnb

Early in his career Raymie worked on Web Search and Big Data. He sold his desktop search startup to Yahoo!, where he rose to become the CTO. At Yahoo! he was heavily involved in the Hadoop ecosystem. He left Yahoo! to start a big-data-as-a-service company, which he sold to SAP in... Read More →

Monday September 8, 2025 14:25 - 14:55 BST
Grote Zaal

GraphQL in Production - Federation and distributed systems

Audience Level Advanced

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