Gerard Klijs
Software Engineer at AxonIQ
Papendrecht, Netherlands
Gerard has been mainly a Web Developer using Java. Using Kafka for different use cases for several clients. He also picked up Clojure and Rust in his spare time, and contributed to several JVM GraphQL libraries.
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Kafka and GraphQL: Misconceptions and connections.
Both for Kafka and GraphQL some misconceptions exist, and not many people know both well, or even combined both pieces of tech. I think these misconceptions play a big role in them, and there are some great ways to combine them.
After handling misconceptions like 'Kafka is just a message bus' and 'GraphQL is only for Graph databases' I will have a few demo's how both can be combined. It can be a clear way to make your event sourcing backend available to the frontend. Or it can create a quickly to setup typed api, if you already use ksqlDB.
Demo's will be based on docker, some JVM based, but also using Node. Might include a demo using Rustlang.