S4 E17: Matt DeBergalis, Apollo GraphQL

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the handbook. To Matt, computers are tools to make things possible... and enable people to do it quickly. He loves community building, with his background in politics, and he loves the open source world. He finds that it's a powerful force for organizing people to create what wasn't possible before. He lives in San Francisco, with his wife and 6 year old. And he's a private pilot, owning his own plane. When asked how he balances all he has going on, he quickly replies that anything worth doing is going to require hard work. For him, this is his family, flights and code adventures. Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. This is the creation story of Apollo GraphQL. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	And so we actually designed Apollo Client, first and foremost, in some sense, its key feature was that we welcomed contributions from developers across the ecosystem.
0:15.9	Open source is great because of the community it creates.
0:21.3	And it's powerful because it empowers developers to improve the product itself.
0:28.0	It's not a closed system that comes to you from an outside vendor.
0:33.2	It's a living, breathing product itself that everybody can improve.
0:37.8	My name is Matt DeBurgillus, and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Apollo GraphQL.
0:47.6	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.2	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Laparte, and today how Matt DeBurgillus
1:06.2	built the tool set to help developers ride apps faster.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.6	Matt DeBurgillus has been into tech since he was a boy,
1:23.6	playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64, and reviewing
1:28.5	the schematics in the handbook.
1:30.8	To Matt, computers are tools to make things possible and enable people to build things
1:35.6	quickly.
1:37.1	He loves community building, with his background in politics, and he loves the open-source
1:41.3	world.
1:42.5	He finds that it's a powerful force for organizing people to
1:46.0	create what wasn't possible before. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and six-year-old,
1:52.2	and he's a private pilot owning his own plane. When asked how he balances all he has going on,
1:58.7	he quickly replies that anything worth doing is going to require hard work.
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