June 2024 Summaries

A look inside Community Engineering at Hasura` provides an insightful glimpse into the role of a Community Engineer, highlighting its multifaceted nature and the various tasks involved in supporting a community. The author's experience as a Community Engineer at Hasura showcases the importance of building a self-sustaining community, engaging with users, and relaying feedback to drive product development. Key initiatives include the DX trials, monthly community calls, support bot, data connectors, weekly office hours, and local development in Hasura v3. The author's day-to-day schedule is structured around focused blocks of time on specific projects or initiatives, including 1-1 sessions with colleagues and community members, responding to forums, and writing technical documentation. By sharing their experiences and insights, the author aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of this critical role in fostering a thriving community.

A Fortune 100 technology company was struggling with a fragmented data architecture, where security team tasks such as scanning for policy violations were hindered by disparate NoSQL and relational databases, APIs, and more. The team sought to federate their data sources using Hasura's API platform, which they found met their requirements of providing a unified query interface, standard syntax, integration with various data types, and ability to join data between different systems. With Hasura, the company was able to quickly onboard new data sources, achieve high performance, and enforce centralized governance over their distributed data, unlocking access to it while maintaining security controls.

Hasura DDN has launched support for local development workflows and self-hosting, marking a significant step forward in its march to general availability. This new feature allows developers to build, test, and run supergraphs on their local machine with hot reload support, providing an alternative to the cloud-first deployment model that was previously available. With local development, users can easily integrate Hasura DDN into their existing tooling and setup, including database management, debugging code, testing, and more, without any additional costs or limits. The feature is designed to enable developers to iterate quickly and efficiently, while also providing the option to deploy the framework in a cloud-first environment if needed.