Author Archive for Sven Haiges

About Sven Haiges

Sven is a maker at heart and loves to connect things. In his role as Senior Technology Strategist at SAP Customer Experience Labs he is constantly researching and prototyping emerging technologies and tries to drive adoption to SAP's products and solutions by using these new technologies for prototypes and proofs of concept (POCs). Sven believes in a playful approach for learning, loves flashy projects and is happy to share his insights at conferences around the globe. @hansamann
May 15

GraphQL on Kyma

Now that we've looked at the fundamentals of GraphQL and also have gone through some practical GraphQL exercises, I wanted to share some thoughts about how Kyma and GraphQL can be used in combination to create a flexible and extensible API layer for enterprise applications. Kyma is an open-source project... read more →
May 07

GraphQL: Queries, Mutations, Subscriptions

I hope you enjoyed the last blog post of this series about GraphQL, which should have introduced the basics to you. In this post, I'll cover Queries, Mutations and Subscriptions. These are the three root types of a GraphQL schema and it's essentially all you need to know to write... read more →
Apr 30

GraphQL: REST in peace!

I agree, GraphQL is not exactly the new kid on the block. Dating back to 2012, developed at Facebook, it looks like we've missed quite some development. But for those of you that know GraphQL, I guess we can agree that it just recently picked up a lot of traction...... read more →
Jan 17

STEAM Kids

Have you heard of Steam Kids? It's an SAP Hybris educational initiative. In a nutshell, we've taken our knowledge around coding & hardware and worked on a day-long workshop program for kids. The tool we decided to use is the Calliope Mini, a microcontroller board similar to Arduino that focuses... read more →
Aug 04