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The first Asian GraphQL conference is coming this spring! Being held April 12th and 13th in Bangalore, the conference has a great speaker line up with a particular focus on the Asian GraphQL community. Organized by Hasura and BrikL , the conference's CFP is open until January 15th.

In his talk at Commit Conf, Luis Emilio Velasco offers an in-depth, hands-on walkthrough of using GraphQL with a microservice architecture. Building an app with Ruby, Elixir, Javascript, and React, he covers not just challenges and considerations of such a scaled out architecture, but also closes the talk with a focus on subscriptions and GraphQL's realtime capabilities.

This article covers James Scott's API the Docs's talk, "Is GraphQL really self-documenting?" He makes a convincing case for the value of documentation and descriptive naming, even getting input from Lee Byron on the matter: "If there’s no documentation, it doesn’t matter how good the API is". While documentation may not always be top of mind, this article does a great job of illustrating why it ought to be. A very interesting read.