This month's Meetup will be centered around GraphQL from introduction to real life use-cases.

Our first session:

An Introduction to GraphQL

GraphQL has taken the API world by storm! If you've been RESTing on your laurels we'll get you up to speed with an introduction to GraphQL & some helpful tips to remember when you build out your first GraphQL API.

Our second session:

TakeShape

GraphQL+CMS = Peanut Butter+Jelly - Follow along to a live coding introduction to TakeShape, a new headless GraphQL CMS that champions the JAMstack with a focus on developer productivity. We'll show you why pairing a GraphQL API with a static site CMS makes the JAMstack even more delicious

Presenter Biographies

Mark & Andrew are the Co-founders of TakeShpe. They met 15 years ago in the Computer Science department at Northeastern University. And they were on the engineering teams behind big content sites like Newsweek, The Daily Beast, & Fast Company magazines.
Andrew

Andrew started his career in enterprise search & natural language processing at Autonomy, acquired by HP. After that, he moved into media where he led the engineering team at Newsweek & The Daily Beast. Prior to TakeShape he was CTO & Co-Founder of a startup called Fairtread where he helped creators monetize their digital content.

Mark

For the past 7 years, Mark was the managing director of Ronik, an award-winning creative agency in Brooklyn. Hes had to solve content management conundrums for clients, building everything from traditional media sites to interactive experiences & marketing platforms.

Together Andrew & Mark have directly experienced just about every problem you can encounter with content management & theyve been obsessed with finding better ways to deliver & render content on the web.

We are hosted this month by Postlight (https://postlight.com/), at

101 5th Ave (between 17th & 18th Streets) on the 10th Floor.

We will begin at 6pm & conclude at 8pm.

Refreshments are sponsored by our friends at Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/).