At first glance, sports fans, news geeks, and pop culture enthusiasts seem largely dissimilar. Often, as a result, the apps that serve these groups are largely different – with a sports app comparing the stats of different athletes and a celebrity news app sharing video interviews and gossip. But when these seemingly different users log on to these different apps, they’ll likely all expect the same thing: A fresh update published mere seconds after they opened the app.

Aurora is a managed database service from Amazon compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It allows for the use of existing MySQL code, tools, and applications and can offer increased performance for certain workloads compared to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Being an AWS product, it benefits from the range of tools and services available on AWS, with simple integrations for analytics and processing. Having all of these tools available makes building larger projects easier and quicker.

In the last two posts of this series, we saw how easy it is to integrate Absinthe into your app to provide a GraphQL API for querying data. We also shared some useful tips for building and maintaining large schemas and optimizing queries. This post will show how we can provide an API to create GraphQL mutations with Absinthe for Elixir. Let's get started!