In this episode the founders of TakeShape Mark Catalano and Andrew Sprouse join us for a chat about headless CMS's, GraphQL, and their ideas on how a headless CMS should be.

After introducing themselves and talking a little bit about how they came to found TakeShape, Andrew gives a thorough background and explanation of GraphQL.

Questions

1. Can you guys tell us a little bit about how you met, and then a bit about founding TakeShape?

2. Why go headless?

3. What is GraphQL?

4. What is the main problem TakeShape is solving?

Links

• JFK Terminal 4 Website - Powered by TakeShape!

• GraphQL - A query language for your API.

• GraphiQL - An in-browser IDE for exploring GraphQL.

  • Live Demo

• Apollo - An implementation of GraphQL that helps you manage data from the cloud to your UI.

• Prisma - Replace traditional ORMs.

We apologize for the varying sound quality on the track in this episode. Occasionally there is background noise that is unavoidable when you're not recording in a professional studio. We're always working to bring the best quality content possible, we appreciate your understanding.