Bridging Frontend and Backend with GraphQL and Apache Kafka ft. Gerard Klijs

What is GraphQL? And how can you combine GraphQL with Apache Kafka® to query data in real time? With over 10 years of experience as a backend engineer, Gerard Klijs is a Confluent Community Catalyst, a contributor to several GraphQL libraries, and also a creator and maintainer of a Rust library to use Confluent Schema Registry with Java client. In this episode, he explains why you want to use Kafka with GraphQL and how they work together to bridge the gap between backend and frontend to make ...