70: “Risks and rewards”, with special guest Christian Selig

Christian Selig, creator of the Apollo Reddit app, joins John to talk about building apps against third party APIs, and what sort of criteria an app needs to meet to be considered a “good platform citizen”. Also, REST vs GraphQL, architecting API clients, and more.

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• Christian on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Apollo
• The Reddit API
• LPLinkMetadata
• Codable
• GraphQL
• The YouTube API
• GitHub’s GraphQL API
• Cloudflare’s GraphQL Analytics API
• Feature flags
• Texture (AsyncDisplayKit)
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk