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Are you new to GraphQL and looking to dive deeper but don't know where to start? Jamie Barton will be releasing an open-source eCommerce platform called CommerceQL. The best thing: He documents the process of building the platform in the form of a video tutorial. Stay tuned and subscribe to be notified when the course is ready!

In this tutorial, the team from Alligator.io gives an overview of the basic functionality of the open-source Graphcool Framework. The tutorial explains how to get started with a simple GraphQL service for a ToDo application, including an overview of serverless functions, authentication and permissions.

In this post, Samir Amzani describes Dailymotion's journey from REST to GraphQL. It's particularly interesting to learn about this transition as Dailymotion is operating at a huge scale, with more than 300 million unique users per months, adding up to 1 million API requests per day. Samir gives a great overview on the technical as wel as the organizational challenges, summarizing each section with a number of lessons learned. One of the key takeways from this article: "Treat your API as a product, and invest in making your API easy to use and understand". A well-written and very informative read!