Although many REST APIs also conform to a common specification, Swagger, there’s no rule that says a REST API has to be generated by Swagger. GraphQL provides a formal definition for the API by ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike REST APIs, GraphQL APIs only have a single endpoint to retrieve all the required data for an app. GraphQL’s biggest strengths are that they let you control exactly what data is received ...

“The graph layer is uniform and flexible, regardless of what kind of infrastructure is working behind the scenes, whether it’s an on-prem server, a cloud VM, a REST API, a data warehouse, or a ...

Juxtaposed with aging REST API technology, GraphQL provides transformative advantages by empowering applications to collect all necessary data via a single API request, ...

Developed by Facebook in 2012, GraphQL allows client services to request precisely the data they need from a server, making it more efficient and flexible compared with REST APIs.

GraphQL’s declarative, schema-driven approach to API orchestration provides these capabilities out-of-the-box, making it suited to serve as the foundation for MCP implementations, especially in ...