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Steve Faulkner
October 20, 2017
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Going Serverless with GraphQL
Presented at O'Reilly Velocity London on 10/20/17
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Transcript
Going Serverless with GraphQL
Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Serverless
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“Could he have used more buzzwords?”
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Going Serverless with GraphQL
An oral history of Bustle architecture
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80+ million readers
2 Years
100% production serverless + graphQL
100% production serverless + graphQL * mostly *
An oral history of Bustle architecture
August 2013
Rails + Heroku
August 2015
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Rails Redis Postgres Elasticsearch Sphinx
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EC2 + Opsworks
Issues: Rails + Postgres EC2 Autoscaling
AWS API Gateway
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda + AWS API Gateway
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“serverless”
there are still servers…
servers platforms!
Episode 1: It Begins
Node.js Lambda API Gateway REST API
EC2 ~$2500/mo
lambda api gateway ~$400/mo
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deployment :/
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https://github.com/bustle/shep
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November 2015
Episode 2: the serverless front end
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Node.js + preact Lambda microservice-ish API Gateway HTML
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the servers are down!
Pop Quiz: Default max # of redis connections
10,000
nothing is a silver bullet
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Spring 2016
GraphQL
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“A query language for your API”
“coalesce the sundry key-value store back-end APIs which existed at
the time”
Schema Query Data
type Query { me: User } type User { id:
ID name: String }
{ me { name } }
{ "me": { "name": “Steve" } }
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types
APIs are contracts
Give me a vehicle
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Give me a car. With 6 seats. That is red.
And has a bike rack. Include the bikes. Mountain Bikes. With tires.
“Sounds like WSDL with less ceremony”
Yup
GraphQL = Happy Developers
Summer 2016
Rails Redis Postgres Elasticsearch Sphinx Node.js Lambda API Gateway graphQL
purescript
“serverless”
serverless
“serverless” 2.0
servers platforms events!
API Gateway Dynamo Kinesis SNS S3 Cognito Elasticache
API Gateway Dynamo Kinesis SNS S3 Cognito Elasticache
FaaS = Cloud Glue
FaaS = Boring
September 2016
Episode 3: All In!
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the serverless servers are down!
account level concurrency limit
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November 2016
Episode 4: Let’s write a graph database
100% Lambda 100% GraphQL
“coalesce the sundry key-value store back-end APIs which existed at
the time”
Issues: too many databases :/
redis + graphQL
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hexastores redis sorted sets graphQL dataloader
Recap
REST API
REST API REST API
REST API REST API GraphQL
June 2017
Episode 5: How do you buy a company?
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REST API REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API GraphQL REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
REST API GraphQL REST API GraphQL 3rd Party
3 Approaches…
1. Build new APIs
2. Wrap legacy APIs
Read through Copy on Read/Write Dual Writes Replace
Data Cruft?
3. Import data with mutations
input EliteDailyImport { id: ID name: String url: URL authorID:
Int! }
Runtime Types Crufty Legacy Data
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What next?
tweetable controversial thoughts
containers
“Docker who?”
What is “serverless”?
No one wants Multi-Cloud FaaS
FaaS is boring
Evented architectures are fun!
Serverless Databases
Deployment frameworks are boring
Architecture frameworks are fun!
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Config Files
Infrastructure as Config Files
const domain = new AWS.Route53('www.example.com') const fn = new AWS.Lambda('render-html')
const cdn = new Fastly('example-cdn') domain.pipe(cdn).pipe(fn)
const domain = new AWS.Route53('www.example.com') const fn = new AWS.Lambda(‘render-html’,
() => { return ‘<p>hello world</p>’ }) const cdn = new Fastly('example-cdn') pipe(domain, cdn, fn)
questions? Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve