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Graphcool was an open-source framework for developing and deploying GraphQL-based backends. It acts as a “backend-as-a-service / framework” that lets you define your data model via GraphQL SDL (Schema Definition Language), and in turn generates a GraphQL CRUD API, supports nested mutations, filtering, pagination, and real-time subscriptions. Graphcool separates the business logic from stateful storage components, allowing the stateful parts (database, subscription engine) to scale independently and giving flexibility in how you compose your system. ...

This repository hosts a major part of The Guardian’s web application stack, historically the Play Framework–based code that serves the newspaper’s content at scale. It orchestrates rendering of articles, live blogs, and interactive pieces while integrating advertising, analytics, identity, and paywall-adjacent features. The codebase coordinates with upstream content APIs, image services, and media platforms to compose pages dynamically with caching and edge-friendly layouts. Operationally,...

Gizzard is a Scala framework originally developed by Twitter for building scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed key-value stores that can be sharded and replicated. It provides infrastructure for routing requests through shard trees, splitting or rebalancing shards dynamically, failover, and migrations. In Gizzard, data is stored in underlying storage shards (which could be databases or other stores) and Gizzard handles the process of routing requests correctly as the cluster topology...