Hey @dcsummers! That's awesome! Have you checked out our examples?

Good evening everyone :) I'm looking into how to do business logic, and one thing isn't clear to me about the action handler webhooks concept. Can it be be for example be used for validating the email/password server side before creating the user in the database? And if so, what would be the flow for such an interaction?

Hi @emilrmoeller . Actions are executed after the data is inserted and as such can not be used to validate data before saving it. Custom Constraints is a feature planned for December that would support this. https://github.com/graphcool/feature-requests/issues/23 Please feel free to comment on that feature request if you have a particular use case in mind so we can be sure that we cover everything when implementing this.

What kind of validation do you need to do?

Hi søren, Perfect I will look at it :) I was looking for customization of the constraints, so I'm glad to hear that's where you implement it :) I'm not sure yet, but of the top of my head it's validation of email and password lengths, but you can say it's overkill if you also send an verification email.

Hi graph.cool'ers! Would any of the team be willing to share some hints about where graph.cool is hosted, and about the backend technology?

@benwixen I just talked with @schickling about that yesterday

He'd be the guy to ask, I think

Hi @benwixen We are hosted on AWS and use Scala for the api backend. Oleg is doing great work with Sangria, and I would highly encourage anyone doing their own backend to at least consider it.

Thanks for chiming in @sam 🙂

@benwixen it's really cool about data storage: they use a MySQL system (AWS Aurora) to actually store the data, and @schickling said they were making schema updates in MySQL on the fly as your GraphQL model changes

Thanks guys!

Do you have plans for supporting other clouds in the future?

We might if there is a compelling enough use case. Any reason you would want us to be in a different cloud?

I'm a sucker for Google App Engine

Just passed 400 people in this channel

and I think their Container Engine is better than the AWS offering as well

but AWS is of course a bigger market, so it makes sense for you to choose that

@sam haha 🙂 We should have a price for number 1000!

@benwixen Is it because you want to run custom code in google that communicates with Graphcool and you want to minimise latency?

other than that, I guess it's just an easier sell, if you as a user have some choice

@sam: for me personally, it would be latency. I know it's less of an issue with GraphQL than with other types of data storage, but still

I think you meant @sorenbs

sorry, that was for @sorenbs

yeah

np

@sorenbs: I was also wondering just in general. It's an interesting product

ah, welcome @benwixen. I see you read my tweet simple smile

@sorenbs: It would probably be fine for my use cases, but I'm not rewriting my backend right now