While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

GraphQL has emerged as the favorite alternative to REST for modern web API design. GraphQL was first used internally at Facebook before being open sourced in 2015. GraphQL is described as a data query ...

Fortunately, there is and that way is not REST. It’s GraphQL. When you compare REST vs GraphQL, performance is a critical criteria — and here GraphQL outshines REST and JSON. Simplified REST with ...

With GraphQL, you get to build whatever API you like and let the client determine what data it wants to access. Just don’t call it a query language Web giants like Facebook and Google are ...

Choice of APIs — Developers can use their choice of the REST API, GraphQL API or schemaless Document API to access data. No modeling — By using the Document API, developers can store JSON objects in ...