GraphQL at the Edge with Stellate

In this episode, Jeff and Fran talk with Max Stoiber and Thomas Heyenbrock of Stellate, an innovative company working in the GraphQL space. Some of this episode's highlights include: 

• learning more about Stellate's core offerings around GraphQL edge caching and analytics, along with future ambitions around unifying third-party service data in GraphQL
• discussing some of the challenges around caching GraphQL queries when compared to REST APIs
• digging into the details of Stellate's WordPress plugin and their motivation behind creating it (hint: lots of people are using WPGraphQL)
• sharing some thoughts on why developers reach for a headless architecture

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Chapters

• 0:55 Intro
• 1:15 Guest Introduction
• 2:53 Thomas' journey into Web Dev
• 5:33 Max's journey into Web Dev
• 8:08 What is Stellate?
• 10:55 How do you configure cache in Stellate?
• 13:33 Stellate WordPress plugin
• 15:35 Stellate Analytics
• 16:19 GraphQL Cache vs REST API Cache
• 19:07 GraphQL and Facebook/Meta
• 22:09 Stellate's rebrand from GraphCDN
• 26:28 Schema Migration
• 29:11 What makes Stellate a unique product?
• 31:20 GraphQL future adoption
• 34:36 GraphIQL IDE
• 36:35 The reason why Stellate created a WordPress plugin
• 40:31 What is the advantage of adopting Headless WP?
• 46:12 Stellate's WordPress cache hit rate
• 49:08 Fran's fun questions
• 53:09 Outro