API-first strategies are becoming more commonplace throughout today’s digital strata. APIs connect microservices architectures, power new digital transformations and help development teams avoid reinventing the wheel for common functions. And although most are built to connect internal components, studies indicate a movement toward more externalization and monetization of public APIs. Over three-fourths of developers now […]
Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data from any server, and it’s a noteworthy alternative to the likes of other web service development styles like representational state transfer (REST) and […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
GraphQL Vulnerability Analysis: The Top Threats
Publicly available vulnerability data can be a goldmine for insights into how DevOps and DevSecOps teams can prioritize threats and improve security across the pipeline. With this in mind, Inigo recently performed a deep-dive analysis of known vulnerabilities affecting GraphQL components—including GraphQL clients such as Relay and GraphQL servers such as Apollo, Graphene, Ariadne, GitLab […]
Key Findings From the 2022 State of GraphQL Report
GraphQL, the open source query language, has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years. The language is excellent for frontend development, as it creates a usable interface to fetch precisely the data required for the specific client at hand. You can also use it to aggregate multiple backend services and data sources. […]
GraphQL: Security by Obscurity Just Isn’t Enough
The debate about how to secure GraphQL rages on. Many organizations are hesitant to adopt GraphQL for public-facing APIs as there is no precise method to handle authorization concerns as of yet. Without a role-based access layer to enable fine-grained permissions for each field (and underlying services that GraphQL might wrap), the query language can […]
Getting Started With GraphQL APIs
GraphQL, a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data, is rapidly growing in popularity. According to the latest State of JavaScript survey report, 44.3% of respondents said they had used GraphQL APIs in 2020 compared to only 5% in 2016. Additionally, many Fortune 500 companies now use […]
VMware Embraces Graph Technology to Manage Multiple Clouds
At the VMware Explore 2022 conference today, VMware launched a portfolio of multi-cloud management tools, dubbed VMware Aria, based on a graph-based data store that captures the resources spanning multiple clouds and their relationship to one another. Accessed via a VMware Aria Hub platform previously known as Project Ensemble, VMware Aria Graph provides a common […]
The Quest To Unify With GraphQL, The Modern Data API
There is an ongoing trend in enterprise software: Using GraphQL as an aggregation layer to unify access to underlying data sources and REST APIs. Some call this the supergraph, and others refer to it as a meta layer. The idea is that by providing a more consumable layer to a wide range of internal sources, […]
Hasura SDK Integrates GraphQL Platform With More Data Sources
At its HasuraCon ’22 conference, Hasura today announced the early release of a software development kit (SDK) that extends the reach of its GraphQL platform to additional data sources. In addition, Hasura is making generally available integrations with the GitHub repository, support for OpenTelemetry Traces within the Hasura Cloud Platform and Microsoft SQL event triggers. […]