In this episode of The Good Thing with Stefan & Jens, our CEO Jens takes us through his latest LinkedIn post calling out a growing anti-pattern: generating GraphQL schemas from OpenAPI specs: deep dive into how we should (and shouldn’t) be building APIs.
Topics this episode:
Apollo GraphQL’s new “Connectors” feature… which somehow breaks their own Principled GraphQL guidelines. We unpack where things went sideways and what demand-driven schema design is really about.
"The first problem I see is that a GraphQL Schema should always be demand driven. A demand driven schema should abstract away the implementation details and solely focuses on the requirements of the app developers that use the API. These are by the way not my words but Apollo write this themselves in principled GraphQL." - Jens
The tech industry’s promise of “learn to code” is hitting a harsh reality: Comp Sci grads are facing the highest unemployment rate among all majors. We discuss what this means for hiring, the state of tech education, and how companies should respond.
And finally, we talk LLMs: Are they supercharging creativity, or dulling it? A post from Ahmet Soormally got us thinking: are engineers outsourcing too much of their thinking to AI tools?
Here’s a breakdown of the episode:
OpenAPI → GraphQL?
Apollo’s “do as I say, not as I do” moment
The job market crunch for Comp Sci graduates
Keeping your creative edge in an AI-assisted world
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