Netflix TechBlog·5yHow Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)
Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling independently. But they add complexity for use cases that span multiple services. Rather than exposing 100s of microservices to UI developers, Netflix offers a unified API aggregation layer at the edge.
Hashnode·5y10 Things Front-End Developers Should Learn in 2021
There's no doubt that front-end development will be one of the hottest disciplines in tech in 2021. This piece aims to give you some guidance on what you should focus on in 2020 as a front- end developer to level up your game. In 2021, we'll probably see a duel between Facebook's ReactJS and the community-driven VueJS.
Hashnode·5yBuilding APIs with GraphQL, Node.js and Express
In this article, we will learn what GraphQL is and how to use it. We will create a blog application using GraphQL to create users, posts, and comments. We can then update, change, and delete these attributes with GraphQL mutations. We'll also create the query resolvers to get all the users and posts.
Apollo Blog·5yWhy use GraphQL?
GraphQL is a server-side runtime and query language for your API. It lets you ask for what you want in a single query, saving bandwidth and reducing waterfall requests. It also enables clients to request their own unique data specifications. GraphQL has strictly-typed interfaces where REST APIs have much looser ones.
Hacker News·5yWhy not use GraphQL?
This post is a response to "Why use GraphQL" by Kyle Schrade. The author states that REST APIs come with a set of downsides and how GraphQL solves all of them. The pattern described is named "backend for frontend" (BFF) It's not limited to full stack frameworks like Next.JS.