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September 16, 2019 141 mins

We begin to twitch as we review the first factor of Hasura’s 3factor app, Realtime GraphQL, while Allen gets distrac … SQUIRREL!, Michael might own some bell bottoms, and Joe is stuck with cobalt.

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3factor app and the First Factor

3factor app

  • The 3factor app is a modern architecture for full stack applications, described by the folks at Hasura.
  • High feature velocity and scalability from the start:
    • Real time GraphQL
    • Reliable eventing
    • Async serverless
  • Kinda boils down to …
    • Have an API gateway (for them, GraphQL).
    • Store state in a (most likely distributed) store.
    • Have services interact with state via an event system.
  • Versus how did we used to do things using a REST API for each individual entity.
    • Let’s be honest though. We probably created a single very specialized REST API for a particular page all in the name of performance. But it was only used for that page.
  • Related technologies:
    • Web Sockets
    • Serverless
    • Lambda / Kappa – Types Streaming architectures
    • Event based architectures
    • Microservices

Factor 1 – Realtime GraphQL

Use Realtime GraphQL as the Data API Layer
  • Must be low-latency.
    • Less than 100 ms is ideal.
  • Must support subscriptions.
    • Allows the application to consume information from the GraphQL API in real-time.
Some Comparisons to Typical Backend API Calls
Traditional application 3factor application
Uses REST calls. Uses GraphQL API.
May require multiple calls to retrieve all data (customer, order, order details) – OR a complex purpose built call that will return all three in one call. Uses GraphQL query to return data needed in a single call defined by the caller.
Uses something like Swagger to
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