The presentation took a look at how Streaming APIs offer an alternative to API polling and the considerations needed when adopting streaming.

Presentation

APIs, STOP Polling, lets go Streaming from Phil Wilkins

The presentation is a natural partner to a previous presentation I’ve done about the use of GraphQL and gRPC as alternatives to using straightforward REST to gain more efficiencies.

gRPC, GraphQL, REST – Which API Tech to use – API Conference Berlin oct 20 from Phil Wilkins

GraphQL Example

With this, we’ve provided an Oracle Reference Architecture that illustrates the use of GraphQL in a manner that exploits Kubernetes to enable high levels of scaling the Architectural content is here, and the free source code is here. We’re chipping away at assembling a Terraform template that can be used to deploy the solution directly.