In-depth about Apollo on the Transmission podcast

Welcome to the newly minted Apollo publication on Medium.

For a couple of weeks now, Ben Strahan and I have been doing a podcast covering topics of interest in the Meteor community. Last week’s episode was a super in-depth dive into the current plans and designs for Apollo. Give it a listen: https://transmission.simplecast.fm/7

Here are the topics we covered:

• [ 04:00 ] — Reactive GraphQL’s new name … Apollo
• [ 05:25 ] — MDG’s new community inclusive MVP approach
• [ 07:18 ] — New Meteor stack after Apollo
• [ 12:30 ] — Redux and Relay
• [ 17:55 ] — GraphQL Query Basics
• [ 19:08 ] — Apollo Architecture Overview
• [ 22:28 ] — Apollo’s Invalidation Server Intro
• [ 25:08 ] — Reactivity control & better offline data
• [ 28:20] — Apollo’s Invalidation Server In-depth
• [ 32:24] — Invalidation/Reactivity options
• [ 33:58] — Mutations are the new “Meteor Methods”
• [ 36:17] — Mutations and Reactivity
• [ 40:42] — Optimistic UI now powered by Apollo (even non-meteor apps)
• [ 41:32] — Business side of Apollo
• [ 43:26] — Competitors
• [ 46:23] — New Galaxy hosting options
• [ 48:06] — Kadira, Galaxy and Reactive Performance Monitoring
• [ 50:57] — Security with no Pub/Sub
• [ 53:38] — Wrapping up and discussing Apollo GH Organization
• [ 59:30] — END

You can also watch the episode on YouTube, if you like talking heads:

Enjoy! Looking forward to comments and feedback about the ideas.