GraphQL seems to be spreading like wildfire, and there's a reason for that. As REST APIs are proliferating, the promise of accessing them all through a single query language and hub, which is what ...

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Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Representational state transfer, popularly known as REST, is all the rage these days. First ...

Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

Facebook has reconstructed its Relay JavaScript framework for building data-driven applications for easier use. Renamed Relay Modern, the updated framework features a GraphQL framework incorporating ...