Nov 20, 2019200 OK! Error Handling in GraphQLHow to effectively model “errors” in your GraphQL schema — We all know how great GraphQL is when things go well, but what happens when things don’t go well? How do we handle errors in GraphQL? How can we do it in a way that’s easy to understand? Let’s start by running a simple GraphQL query: { user(username: "@ash")…GraphQL8 min readGraphQL8 min read
Mar 25, 2019Building my first keyboard (and you can too)starting with knowing absolutely nothing about building keyboards — This keyboard building guide and saga started off with me simply wanting an adorable keyboard… …and subsequently deciding that building my own ergonomic keyboard was my best course of action. When I started this project, I knew absolutely nothing about keyboards or how to build them. I found it a…Mechanical Keyboards14 min readMechanical Keyboards14 min read
Published inMedium Engineering·Nov 2, 2018GraphQL Server Design @ MediumA while ago, we told the story of how we are migrating to React.js and a service oriented architecture with the help of GraphQL. Now, we want to tell the story of how the structure of our GraphQL server helped make our migration much smoother. We had three things in…GraphQL4 min readGraphQL4 min read
Published inMedium Engineering·Oct 31, 2018GraphQL @ Medium Tech Talk VideosLast week, Medium hosted our first ever GraphQL Tech Talks! Thank you to everyone who attended! It was great being about to share what we’ve learned and chat with the GraphQL community. 🎉 For those who weren’t able to attend, we have good news. We were able to get videos of all of the talks! 😱 📹 🗣 Here they are. Enjoy!GraphQL1 min readGraphQL1 min read
Published inMedium Engineering·Oct 19, 2018GraphQL @ Medium Tech TalksMedium has been working with GraphQL for over a year now! We’ve built out our GraphQL server on top of our existing backend in such a way that, with the help of Protocol Buffers, we have been able to make progress migrating to React.js …GraphQL2 min readGraphQL2 min read
Published inMedium Engineering·Mar 21, 20182 Fast 2 Furious: migrating Medium’s codebase without slowing downFive years ago, Medium was built using the latest tools and frameworks by people who had experience with those tools. It’s time that we update these tools and frameworks. However, migrating an entire system to new tools and frameworks isn’t an easy task. And doing that while not impacting feature…GraphQL4 min readGraphQL4 min read
Jun 26, 2017Fidget Spinning: Don’t Be A StatisticDo you know what your teens/friends/colleagues are doing? — Everything was going great until about a month ago. I hung out with friends, engaged with people on social media, participated in outings with colleagues. And then it happened. A video of a fidget spinner. Huh, that’s weird. What’s a fidget spinner? Oh, it’s just a spinny thing with some…Fiction4 min readFiction4 min read
Mar 8, 2017Apache Spark: DataFrame vs. RDDIn Spark code, you may have seen DataFrame and RDD used similarly and wondered “What’s the actual difference between the two?” While used similarly, there are some important differences between DataFrames and RDDs. DataFrames require a schema and you can think of them as “tables” of data. RDDs are less…Spark2 min readSpark2 min read
Feb 21, 2017A Dungeon Master’s Guide (from a Player’s Perspective)I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons for about 8 years, the majority as a player. I’m currently involved in two different campaigns: one has been going on for 4 years and the other for a year and a half. From my time as a player, I know what works well…Dungeons And Dragons4 min readDungeons And Dragons4 min read
Published incode post-its·Feb 8, 2017Scala regexes + stripMarginI was working with some reaaallllyyy long regexes in Scala. Something like: (^(https://example\.com/ex/)|(^/ex/)|(^example\.com/ex/)|(^http://localhost)|(^http://example\.dev)|example\.ex\.com|\.com/Example|example\.co)(?:.+) The actual regex doesn’t really matter. The point is, it’s really long. So, I wanted to write it on multiple lines instead of one, really long line. In Scala you can do this with """ """.stripMargin. …Scala1 min readScala1 min read
