2 posts tagged with "Patterns"

Two camps. One schema. Endless arguments on Twitter. Every Java GraphQL project, within the first week, has the same meeting: should we write the schema first in SDL, or should we write Java classes and let the schema fall out of them? Both camps are convinced the other is doing it wrong. Both are partially right. Here's the honest breakdown, the actual tradeoffs, and what the 2026 Java ecosystem looks like when you stop arguing and pick one.

Resolvers are where GraphQL magic happens - and where most bugs lurk. After years of debugging production resolvers at 2 AM, I've collected these dark arts. Use them wisely.