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.

Apollo GraphQL Inc., a provider of tools and services for working with the GraphQL open-source data query language, today announced a set of connectors that bridge the gap between GraphQL and represen ...

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 ...

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 ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

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.

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’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 ...