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Code

API-201

Dept.

APIs & protocols

Duration

1–2 days

Level

intermediate

Building scalable and performant APIs faster with GraphQL

Do you want to be able to build better and more stable, scalable APIs in shorter time frame for your apps and single page applications? Want to understand how Facebook, IFTT and Shopify build their API infrastructure without breaking their APIs and keep thousands of clients happy? Then this GraphQL course is totally for you!

What you’ll learn

A lot! After this course you will be able to:

  • Improve team velocity by adopting GraphQL for your products across the board.
  • Build high quality APIs that are easy to understand and a breeze to query and use.
  • Design and evolve your API without breaking your clients and consumers.
  • Do authentication and authorization of your API.
  • Have a GraphQL mindset in your API design allowing you to design better and more future proof APIs.
  • Understand what GraphQL is, why it exists, and what problem it solves.
  • Build an efficient micro service architecture on top of GraphQL.
  • Know the best tricks to test your GraphQL API.

Audience

  • Developers, front-enders

Pricing

1 day training 1800,-

Ex VAT. In-company for up to 12 people, tailoring, materials and drinks after included.

About the trainer

Emile has 25+ years of experience building software and leading teams, from co-founding and running Leaplines as CTO to shipping for HEMA, Europol and Sony Ericsson. His teams ran GraphQL in production for years, powering high-performing, declarative APIs for clients such as Hudson's Bay, Bijenkorf, Action and Suitsupply.

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Emile Bosch
Enrollment semester: whenever you want

Runs in-company, tailored to your stack and level. Prerequisites are whatever your team already knows. The course adapts.

no invoice surprises, you'll get a quote first

attendance mandatory · fun mandatory · drinks after class count as credits