GraphQL, the query language invented by Facebook, has attracted a lot of interest as a means to conveniently access data programmatically. GraphQL structures internal services with a unified schema for data, empowering product engineers to easily grab what they want from many microservices to populate the user interfaces (UIs) they’re creating. By unifying company data […]
The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures
One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […]
Apollo GraphQL Brings Caching to Client Software
Apollo GraphQL this week updated its namesake GraphQL client software that among other things improves performance using in-memory caching application programming interfaces (APIs). GraphQL has emerged as a popular alternative to REST APIs because it provides developers with a query engine that provides more control over what data is requested. Similar in concept to SQL, […]