Headless WP Podcast

GraphQL at the Edge with Stellate

August 17, 2022 WP Engine Developer Relations Season 3 Episode 3
Headless WP Podcast
GraphQL at the Edge with Stellate
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In this episode, Jeff and Fran talk with Max Stoiber and Thomas Heyenbrock of Stellate, an innovative company working in the GraphQL space. Some of this episode's highlights include: 

  • learning more about Stellate's core offerings around GraphQL edge caching and analytics, along with future ambitions around unifying third-party service data in GraphQL
  • discussing some of the challenges around caching GraphQL queries when compared to REST APIs
  • digging into the details of Stellate's WordPress plugin and their motivation behind creating it (hint: lots of people are using WPGraphQL)
  • sharing some thoughts on why developers reach for a headless architecture

Max's Twitter
Max's Website

Thomas' Twitter

Intro
Guest Introduction
Thomas' journey into Web Dev
How do you configure cache in Stellate?
Stellate WordPress plugin
Stellate Analytics
GraphQL and Facebook/Meta
Stellate's rebrand from GraphCDN
Schema Migration
What makes Stellate a unique product?
GraphQL future adoption
GraphIQL IDE
What is the advantage of adopting Headless WP?
Stellate's WordPress cache hit rate
Fran's fun questions
Outro