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Run Apollo Server Close to Your Users

What's this blog post about?

Kurt Mackey discusses Fly.io, a platform that enables running API servers close to users for improved speed and performance. He mentions building an edge GraphQL server with Apollo and Redis, highlighting the benefits of static typing in GraphQL. The author also talks about using CDN-like infrastructure for GraphQL APIs and shares a guide on creating an Edge GraphQL service with Apollo. Additionally, he introduces Fly's demo GraphQL API based on the Open Library REST API and encourages readers to explore the source code.

Company
Fly.io

Date published
July 1, 2020

Author(s)
Kurt Mackey

Word count
216

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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