The burden of high-level APIs

Topics include:

• 2:45 – Using Gatsby to build miragejs.com
• 12:05 – Tradeoffs between low-level and high-level APIs
• 30:21 – Writing Gatsby data providers, and using GraphQL to query Gatsby's content mesh
• 41:33 – GraphQL vs. REST is wrong
• 44:16 – API design
• 58:45 – What's the best architecture for building modern UIs on the web?

Sponsors:

• TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages

Links:

• Mirage.js
• Gatsby
• GraphQL