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Sourabh Sharma
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Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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Workflow and tooling for GraphQL

As per the data graph (data structure) way of thinking in GraphQL, data is exposed using an API consisting of graphs of objects. These objects are connected using relations. GraphQL only exposes a single API endpoint. Clients query this endpoint, which uses a single data graph. On top of that, the data graph may resolve data from a single source, or multiple sources, by following the OneGraph principle of GraphQL. These sources could be a database, legacy system, or services that expose data using REST/gRPC/SOAP.

The GraphQL server can be implemented in the following two ways:

  • Standalone GraphQL service: A standalone GraphQL service contains a single data graph. It could be a monolithic app or based on a microservice architecture that fetches the data from single or multiple sources (having no GraphQL API).
  • Federated GraphQL services: It’s very easy to query a single data graph for comprehensive data fetching. However, enterprise...
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Sourabh Sharma

Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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