Are you passionate about software development and the tech industry? Software Engineering Daily is

looking for a new podcast host to grow its hosting team. In this role, you'll help shape the show's

editorial direction and interview engineers, founders, hackers, and tech leaders. Podcasting experience

is a plus, but not required. Curiosity, great communication skills, and a

genuine interest in the craft of building software are what matter most. If this sounds like you,

reach out at editor at softwareengineeringdaily.com. Engineering teams often build microservices as their

systems grow, but over time this can lead

to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns, duplicated business logic, and

an uneven developer experience.

A unified data graph with a consistent execution layer helps address these challenges by centralizing

schema, simplifying how teams compose functionality,

and reducing operational overhead while preserving performance and reliability.

Viaduct is Airbnb's open source, data-oriented service mesh and GraphQL platform built

around a single, highly connected central schema.

It has played a major role in scaling Airbnb's engineering organization.

Adam Miskovich is a principal software engineer at Airbnb, and he worked on Viaduct.

He joins the podcast with Gregor Van to talk about how Viaduct originated inside Airbnb,

the architectural principles that shaped it, the challenges of scaling GraphQL to millions of queries per second,

and why the team decided to open source the platform.

They also discussed the future of backend development in an AI-driven world

and how unified data layers may influence

the next generation of engineering systems. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist,

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