The Hubburu Blog

Why Exposing Foreign Keys in GraphQL is Bad

There are many pitfalls in GraphQL development, and I believe exposing Foreign Keys is one.

API Monitoring for GraphQL

Monitoring of APIs has been best practice for production environments for a long time. Tools like New Relic, Datadog and Splunk have become popular in this category. The story for GraphQL is a bit different, and this article will tell you why.

How to deprecate GraphQL Enums

The deprecation flow of GraphQL is a great property of the technology. While many think the main benefit of a GraphQL API is the lack of waterfall request chains or lack of overfetching, I think the possibility to evolve the API is more important.

Using DynamoDB with GraphQL Dataloader

Dataloaders are a powerful tool to use when resolving GraphQL queries. DynamoDB has got some great aspects to it which makes it a great fit for some applications. This article will show how to use them together.

Common Security Flaws in GraphQL

GraphQL is a great technology to empower your frontend developers to build truly reliable software with end-to-end type safety, but are we accidentally exposing our servers with security vulnerabilities by implementing the technology?

What is a GraphQL Schema

At the core of every GraphQL server lies a Schema. A GraphQL schema will serve as documentation for clients that want to integrate with the server, but there is more to it than that.

GraphQL In a Larger Company: A Success Story

This is my retelling of how one of my previous employers adopted GraphQL to great success.

Testing Apollo Server With Vitest

When it comes to testing Javascript or Typescript projects, Jest has been the test runner of choice for most teams for a long time. Vitest is a new test runner, and this is an example how to get it running.

Running Remix with Apollo

Since I have been following the Remix journey, but being quite sceptical of it I felt that a recent tweet by Ryan Florence was a good excuse to try it out. And beind very experienced with Apollo GraphQL, I thought I could have something to contribute.

Common GraphQL design mistakes

When I have consulted companies implementing GraphQL I tend to see the same design mistakes pop up quite often. This article will go through a few of the lessons I have learned after almost four years of GraphQL design, so that you don't have to repeat those mistakes.

Schema management - how and why?

When coming to GraphQL from other services, and attempt your first deprecation you quickly realize that it can be pretty difficult to track this in a decent way. This post will try to explain how this is done.

Where to host GraphQL

A GraphQL API can be served in many ways. As part of a monolith application, through a serverless function, as a standalone server, running as a function on a CDN, as federated services, or straight up on your client. I will go through each of these alternatives with some pros and cons you should consider before starting.