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Episode 273: 273: GraphQL Migration: A Use Case for Metaprogramming with Shawnee Gao
Show notes
Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. As a maintainer of a platform codebase, her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs and abstracting away lower level framework code. Which is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL!
Links for this episode:
- GraphQL Migration: A Proper Use Case for Metaprogramming?
- Protobuffers
- GraphqlRuby Gem
- Graphoid Gem
- Shawnee Gao on Twitter (@gao_shawnee)
- Shawnee Gao on Github (@shawneegao)
- Square Developer on Twitter (@squaredev)
- Square Developers Landing Site
- Square Developers Slack Channe
- Square Developers Blog
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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