May 6

GraphQL is a Trap?

This twitter thread blew up on twitter yesterday and I thought I’d go over some of the author’s points in a longer format so we can clear up some misconceptions. Let’s go over them one by one! [Tweet 1] GraphQL makes your public API equal to a generic database…

Graph QL

6 min read

Dec 12, 2021

Response to “GraphQL is not meant to be exposed over the internet”

This is a response to two articles I stumbled upon the past few weeks: https://devops.com/graphql-as-a-meta-layer/ (which links to the second article below) https://wundergraph.com/blog/graphql_is_not_meant_to_be_exposed_over_the_internet Having worked on two large public GraphQL APIs in the past, this concerned me. Let’s start with that first article and read why GraphQL is not meant…

Graph QL

4 min read

May 19, 2021

First Look at Notion’s Public API

Last week, the team at Notion released the beta of their new public API: https://developers.notion.com/. As a Notion user myself (but mainly as an API nerd), I took a look at what the new API looks like. Thought I’d share my findings here. API Style Let’s start by the API style. Some…

API

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Aug 5, 2020

A Guide to GraphQL Errors

🌱 This post is still growing and likely will change as best practices evolve 🌳 GraphQL errors are something many of us struggle with. Good practices are emerging but the community has not yet settled on a convention. I hope this guide helps demystify the many ways you can structure…

Graph QL

11 min read

May 21, 2020

On GraphQL-to-SQL

GraphQL has a reputation for its N+1 problem which can often happen when implemented naively. This leads to a lot of us trying to solve the issue of data fetching with GraphQL in the most efficient way possible. Besides the popular Dataloader approach, another very common way of tackling this…

Graph QL

6 min read

May 15, 2020

The GraphQL Sweet Spot

GraphQL is everywhere these days. From Facebook’s original usage of it to some more funky usages like databases, GraphQL is loved by so many developers that we are starting to use it in areas nobody would’ve thought of initially. Every technology has its use cases for which it is ideal…

Graph QL

7 min read

Published in The Startup

·May 5, 2020

All About GraphQL Abstract Types

And Why Union Types are Far from a Silver Bullet — This post is a snippet from Production Ready GraphQL. It is part of an update I’m working on for the schema design chapter in version 1.3. I decided to release it publicly as well because this side of abstract types is not talked about very much, and the subtle differences…

Graph QL

9 min read

Apr 9, 2020

The Biggest GraphQL Misconceptions

As GraphQL is gaining in popularity, misconceptions about how it works and what it provides are also growing. I demystify a lot of these misconceptions in detail in Production Ready GraphQL, but here’s a little top 3 list of misconceptions I see and hear around GraphQL these days. Self-Documenting REST: Requires…

Graph QL

3 min read

Apr 2, 2020

gqless or gqlful?

Should GraphQL queries be abstracted away? — Recently, a new GraphQL javascript client was released called gqless. The idea is really cool and clever: instead of writing GraphQL queries, client write typescript code in their application, and queries are generated at runtime. gqless is a fundamentally new approach to a GraphQL client. It makes using your API…

Graph QL

6 min read

Mar 23, 2020

Production Ready GraphQL is Now Available!

I’m really happy to announce that my book Production Ready GraphQL is now available! The book contains a full overview of what is needed to build great GraphQL APIs: Schema Design Implementation Techniques Performance & Monitoring Security Architecture Documentation Migrating from legacy APIs A lot more: Everything I’ve learnt on…

Graph QL

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