Video: web architecture & streaming GraphQL

In this video, Rob Richard (Senior Director, Front-end Engineering) discusses the @defer directive in GraphQL (starts at 36:20) and Tim Whidden (VP, Engineering) discuss 1stdibs’s front-end architecture and how to mock it in development. The talk took place in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 14th, 2019. Find links to the slides below: 1stdibs’s Front-End Architecture Streaming… post continues

Infrastructure Evolution

1stdibs’s infrastructure has changed dramatically over the site’s 15-year existence. While visiting the Lithuanian team, CTO Ross Paul discusses the motivations for the evolution from a monolithic webapp to a cloud-based SOA. Infrastructure Evolution from 1stdibs Engineering on Vimeo.