GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch the specific fields you require, thus eliminating the potential overfetching or underfetching concerns of REST APIs. And as GraphQL adoption matures within organizations, […]
Does GraphQL Introduce New Security Risks?
The GraphQL query language is an excellent tool for increasing the ease of data sharing. The premise is that you request the fields you need in a single bundled request, avoiding multiple network calls. Due to its usability, GraphQL is a growing area of development. Yet, as with any new technology, it comes with caveats. […]
Smoothing the Transition From REST to GraphQL
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it enables you to grab the exact data you need with a single request. This solves the problems of over-fetching and under-fetching, which classical […]
Hasura Adds Join Capability to GraphQL Engine
Hasura today announced it has extended its GraphQL engine to make it possible to join data generated by multiple sources. Hasura CEO Tanmai Gopal said GraphQL Joins makes it possible to join data from across different GraphQL services that can then be accessed via a single GraphQL application programming interface (API). The extension of the […]
Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams’ access to those services when building their applications. Netlify Graph is based on the GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (APIs) and enables developers to […]
Graph CDN for GraphQL APIs
Alan Shimel talks with Max Stoiber from GraphCDN, the CDN for GraphQL APIs. GraphCDN is now available to everyone with edge caching, query analytics, error tracking and protection from malicious queries for your GraphQL APIs. A video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. […]
Best of 2021 – The Torture Never Stops
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the nineteenth in our series of the Best of 2021.
Hasura Adds Engine to Transform REST APIs to GraphQL
Hasura today unveiled a Data Hub repository for integrating application programming interfaces (APIs). The repository includes a connector that makes it easier for IT organizations to convert REST APIs into ones based on the GraphQL specification. Tanmai Gopal, Hasura CEO, said the connector eliminates the need to write custom code to connect existing REST endpoints […]
The Graph Donates $48M to Advance GraphQL Platforms
The Graph, a provider of indexing and query tools based on the GraphQL language designed for blockchain platforms, today announced it has given $48 million to The Guild, a group of developers advancing an open source application programming interface (API) platform to further development of GraphQL-based technologies. Administered via The Graph Foundation, a nonprofit consortium […]
GraphQL as a Meta Layer
There’s a lot of interest in GraphQL lately. The query language is excellent for data retrieval, and it could act as a more usable mechanism to evolve the traditional REST API integration approach. But as adoption grows steadily, architects are now considering the implications of managing GraphQL at scale. Certain issues may hinder GraphQL in […]