ORMs (Object Relational Mappings) get a ton of hate amongst engineers today. We often look at ORMs with disdain writing them off as “leaky abstractions” over our database. But time and time again, engineering teams still use ORMs! Often they start with an ORM and use them with full force…

Today I want to write about a nice little utility for communicating between GraphQL microservices. At Workpop, our architecture looks like this: Johannes Schickling did a great job on this diagram because it really illustrates our service setup perfectly. Our frontend clients communicate with a GraphQL Gateway: a service that…

I’ve recently been taking advantage of building custom scalars to simplify presentational logic across all my API clients. Before I share with you my favorite scalars, let’s talk about what scalars are and what custom scalars can allow you to do. What are Scalars? Scalars are another type and represent leaf values of…

Today I want to share a cool pattern I’ve been using in my React Apollo applications. I was working on a feature recently where I needed to fetch some user data to determine if the current user had a specific “role”. …

Happy Memorial Day to those in the U.S! In the last chapter we created some backdoor, moderator apis for managing the inventory of our credits system! If you want to get caught up on this series, checkout Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here and Part 4 here. …

After a good nights sleep, we’re back at it again. In the last chapter we installed prisma-binding to use our data access layer within our service. We sketched out some APIs users will use to interact with it as well. …

Alrighty, we’re gonna keep keeping on. In the last chapter we got our boilerplate for creating our application server done. If you want to get caught up on this series, checkout Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Just like the last post, I’m going to write code and write…

Alright! Back to it! In the last chapter we scaffolded the beginnings of our credit service with the hope we can facilitate in app purchases! If you want to get caught up on this series, checkout Part 1 here. Now, with our data access layer generated for us from the…

In the spirits of gamification, I am going to build a microservice that can power in-app currency. This is going to be a unique blog post. I am going to build the service as I am writing the blog post. Here goes: First things first, let’s install prisma $ npm…