Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API. With GraphQL, developers use a strongly typed query language to define both requests and responses, allowing an application to specify ...

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.

The open source query language GraphQL is the future of APIs, but getting it to hum (and hum at scale) takes some strategizing. Here’s what we’ve learned.

Graph-based programming was popularized by GraphQL, a data-query language introduced by Facebook in 2015. GraphQL helps developers communicate with APIs through flexible and structured data queries.

Devarkonda writes as follows…. As many developers understand and as Salt Security somewhat alarmingly pointed out in December 2021, the fact that a single GraphQL API call can include multiple ...

First, it will be necessary to host GraphQL containers themselves, not just API functionalities, thus eliminating Function as a Service (FaaS) as a distribution strategy.

GraphQL is an API query language that has taken the software development world by storm, and Jain and McKenzie exemplify this. Jain, founder and CTO of Dgraph , was among the first to take note of ...

GraphQL’s ability to nest queries allows a frontend developer to fetch, in one request, the relevant information from an API. Since GraphQL is almost a universal query language, handling ...

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 ...