Yoel Spotts
Biography
Yoel Spotts is a software engineer at Experience, based in Atlanta. Holding degrees in Computer Science and Talmudic Law, he has almost 20 years of programming experience. A huge fan of the JVM, Yoel has worked in Java, Groovy and Scala. No stranger to DevNexus or public speaking, Yoel attended the very first DevNexus (back before it was called DevNexus) and has presented several times in the past. When not building great software or trying to avoid category theory, Yoel enjoys hiking and spending time with his family.
GraphQL: from beginner to expert in 60 minutes
In four short years, GraphQL has taken the API world by storm. You may heard about this technology and wondered what all the fuss is about; wonder no longer. We’ll start at the very beginning: what is GraphQL and what it can to to you. We’ll move on to brass tacks: developing a schema, implementing a server, and writing client queries. We’ll also touch on some of the many graphql tools and clients that have sprung up. By the end of the presentation, you’ll be able to start writing your own GraphQL servers and clients!
