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Amsterdam, NetherlandsPrincipal Engineer - iOS, Apollo GraphQL
Anthony Miller leads the development of Apollo GraphQL’s iOS client library. He has a passion for client-side infrastructure, quality API design, and writing far too many unit tests. Outside of Apollo, Anthony enjoys board gaming with friends, watching movies, and relaxing by the pool.
GraphQL itself is a type-safe language. A schema is composed of well-defined types, supports nullability, and allows for inheritance through interfaces. The flexibility and expressiveness provided by a GraphQL schema seems to be a perfect fit for use with type-safe coding languages. But there are many challenges to overcome when consuming a GraphQL schema in strictly type-safe languages. This talk will discuss why GraphQL seems to conflict with type safety; explore some of the notable challenges GraphQL client developers face when consuming a GraphQL API; and uncover how the Apollo team has approached solutions for many of these issues in Swift and the Apollo iOS client.