“GraphQL, sometimes called 'a query language for your API,' is an alternative to the REST architectural style that allows clients to request the data they need, using a clear and self-documented ...

Considering GraphQL is put in the same category as REST, gRPC, and webhooks , calling it a ‘QL’ (Query Language) is a bit of a stretch. It is really a syntax for describing an API .

When we ask the SpaceX REST API for the land pad data, the size of the JSON array returned is 8.18 KB. Remember, the REST API has to return all the fields, all the time. The efficiency GraphQL ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes ...

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced significant Apollo GraphOS platform enhancements focused on AI-readiness, delivering advanced capabilities that enable ...

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced the Apollo MCP Server, a solution that connects graph APIs to AI models using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has ...

Providing an alternative to REST, GraphQL lets developers use a strongly typed query language to define requests and responses, letting an application specify what it needs from an API. GraphQL ...

The addition of REST support is a bridging strategy that will make it easier for organizations conducting modern API-driven development to run their GraphQL queries without having to create new ...

GraphQL is becoming the mechanism of choice for composable APIs, supplanting REST and other formats. REST, which became a de facto standard for web APIs in the mid 2000s, has worked very well as a ...

IBM has acquired StepZen, a company that aims to make it easier for developers to build GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs), and improve the performance of tools that use REST APIs.