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Supper Club × GraphQL as an Aggregation Layer with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV about the tech stack used to deliver streaming TV content, build Apple TV apps, host media, and more.
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Show Notes- 00:36 Welcome
- 02:15 Guest introduction
- fbritoferreira.com
- @SkyShowtime
- Peacock
- 04:13 What do the systems look like inside of Sky?
- GraphQL
- Redis
- Apollo GraphQL
- 06:26 Do you use federation?
- 07:50 How do you handle caching?
- 11:24 What’s the tech stack for the front end?
- 13:30 Do you cache on client side?
- 15:27 How long has Sky been serverless?
- 16:55 Sponsor: Gatsby
- 18:05 How was Sky’s Apple TV app built?
- 21:17 Where did you host media?
- AWS Streaming
- Mux
- 24:37 Supporting live events
- 28:03 Sponsor: Storyblok
- 30:05 What language are you writing the GraphQL layer?
- The Guild
- 32:22 How do you define your types?
- 36:40 Supper Club questions
- Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
- Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad
- 44:28 Sponsor: ReTool
- 45:22 AppWrite
- AppWrite
- 48:42 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
- Anker 733 Power Bank (GaNPrime PowerCore 65W)
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