Knotel Experiences Success and Challenges Implementing Microservices using Apollo Federation

During Day 1 of the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco, Victor Quinn, Head of Engineering at Knotel reported in an exclusive interview with ProgrammableWeb that his company has achieved success and also had challenges using Apollo Federation to transform the way company uses GraphQL.

One key success is that Apollo Federation allows Knotel to use the Squad Strategy to organize the way its technical staff works.

TypeScript is Now Airbnb's Official Language for Web Development

During her Day 1 keynote presentation at the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco, CA, Brie Bunge, Front-End Engineer at Airbnb told the audience that Airbnb has adopted TypeScript as its standard language for Web development.

Bunge said during her presentation, “TypeScript is now the official language of Web development at Airbnb and over half of our 3 million lines of code have been migrated so far.”