A case study in successful rapid application development using the Graphile GraphQL library as a backend instead of a traditional REST API.

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Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices Netflix Technology Blog Follows Feb 22 · 8 min read ARTICLE. The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. One approach that is gaining mind-share within Netflix Studio Engineering is the concept of GraphQL microservices (GQLMS)

Beyond REST

Graphile looks like big brother of GraphQL…

Really interesting approach. Something to aspire to.

I discovered Graphile a while ago and considered it for daily’s API. I decided eventually to roll something of my own that is less dependent on the database. Managing the “API” in the database requires a prior infrastructure that includes testing, versioning, etc. All-in-all I see why it works on companies like Netflix but might be harder to pull-off in small teams.