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May 19 - 20 | In-Person Only
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT
Incrementally adopting GraphQL is hard. The shape of the data differs between REST and GraphQL. Components that were designed for one don't automatically work with the other. And migrating by making multiple network requests can worsen performance unacceptably. And big bang refactors? Well, if you believe those will be successful, I have some oceanfront real estate in Nebraska to sell you.

Is there a better way? Well, what if instead of contorting our frontends for multiple backends, we gave our non-GraphQL backend one crucial property: generated queries that fetch exactly the right data. Then, migrating from one backend to another is as simple (and stress-free) as running an experiment and ramping up a decider!

And Isograph makes that easy! Isograph is an opinionated, compiler-driven framework that makes it easy to build stable, performant data-driven apps, and it generates queries for just the data needed by a given screen. And crucially, it can generate multiple different versions of the same query: GraphQL, SQL, whatever your heart desires.

Finally, adopting GraphQL can be simple, stress-free, and incremental!
Speakers
avatar for Robert Balicki

Robert Balicki

Staff engineer, Pinterest
Robert Balicki works as a software engineer at Pinterest. He used to have hair down to his shoulders and play in a rock band. He works on Isograph, which you should check out!
Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV

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