[feedhenry-dev] AWS AppSync (Data Sync built aroundGraphQL)

[Wojciech Trocki]

*Moving to mobile-dev to avoid spamming*

@Evan - Thank you so much for sharing this!
I reviewed AWS AppSync documentation to learn more about approaches they
use.
Graphql for transport and comprehensive sdks provide really good base for
sync services.
AppSync has many good patterns and solutions that we can learn from and
apply to our domain.

Google Firebase already has answer to AWS AppSync called Cloud Firestore
which is also in beta stage (with public access)
https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/03/googles-firebase-releases
-cloud-firestore-a-nosql-database-for-app-developers

Both services have common limitations - no open source code and possibility
to run server on your own.
Apart from AWS and Firebase we have many open source players without that
limitations:

- https://realm.io/blog/introducing-realm-mobile-platform
- https://deepstream.io
- https://telepat.io/platform.html
- https://www.apollographql.com
- https://www.graph.cool

I'm in process of comparing architectures (already seeing multiple common
elements).
This will allow us to get some overview of best patterns for building and
using API's, SDK's, transports (websockets etc.) used in industry.

[image: Inline image 1]

After 3 weeks I finally got approval from AWS for access to AWS AppSync
beta.
Beta is not open to the public so if you guys want to try this let me know.

Regards

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:

> I know that Serhii has been experimenting with GraphQL as well. He might
> have some feedback to share.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Karel
>
> On 29 November 2017 at 09:58, Craig Brookes <cbrookes at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting. Graphql is an interesting choice and probably something that
>> we should look into for our sync service, it seems very useful for mobile
>> devices, allowing for querying and only returning small subsets of the data
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Evan Shortiss <eshortis at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Interesting news from AWS today on the mobile front. They announced a
>>> Data Sync product named AppSync[1]
>>>
>>> It's pretty interesting that they've bet on GraphQL as the API layer.
>>>
>>> [1] - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/
>>>
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