GraphQL is, by now, an established way to interact with backends. The biggest companies in the industry have moved to GraphQL or are transitioning to GraphQL right now.

This talk will look beyond the standard introductions to this technology and explores the pitfalls that await you when starting your journey to GraphQL.

We will look at how you can:
- apply authorization concepts
- secure your GraphQL backend against malicious requests
- make your GraphQL server perform consistently for all request
- use real-time functionality with GraphQL and scale properly
- use caching with GraphQL