GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the Difference? According to Ryan Anderson, platform architect at Perfect Sense , both GraphQL and REST utilize JSON as the primary data communication format.

Unlike GraphQL, a REST API also has a very fixed set of data, and if the front-end developer doesn’t describe absolutely everything they need, it won’t be there in the end result, according to ...

When you upload your vacation photos to Instagram, there’s a built-in option to simultaneously post to Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. This modern digital experience is powered by APIs ...

GraphQL could be the key to taming the API explosion ... a REST API, a data warehouse, or ... For example, Walmart used GraphQL to create a federated schema of different entities used across their ...

Juxtaposed with aging REST API technology, GraphQL provides transformative advantages by empowering applications to collect all necessary ... I’ll give an example of a security incident we ...

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 ...

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration company, today announced the general availability of Apollo Connectors for REST APIs and new GraphOS platform enhancements – giving enterprises ...

GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be ...

For example, if you want to know how many women above a certain age purchased a certain product from your website in a given month, you could query your ecommerce API with 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 ...