How GraphQL Helped Create Scalability and Stability in the Retirement Space.

Session description

Retirement data is surprisingly complicated, from provisions to participant payroll data to plan sponsor's unique needs. This presents a complicated and heavy requirement to fetch data points that provide the value, and regulatory requirements, that third party administrators require. GraphQL provides this, it allows specific data to be fetched at each stage of the plan lifecycle, without requiring us to fetch all of the data that we have. This allowed our platform to decrease latency by 30%, load time by 1 second, and server load by 50%.