[jasonhoch]

I really appreciated the way this post was structured. It worked forwards, not backwards. At the halfway point, I thought, "Oh, using the Apollo cache and the @client directive is a reasonable way to store and access client-side state," which is exactly what the OkCupid team thought at that point, too. Then they stopped, thought ahead a bit farther, and came up with reasons why it might not be the optimal choice.

Many posts are written about end results. "Look at this thing we built that is cool and works well." Thanks for sharing the full story, OkCupid.