GraphQL is a developer's tool of choice for developing efficient and evolvable APIs. Here's a first look at the tools and concepts that will help you get started. Developed by Facebook and released as ...

There is so much talk about data that it’s almost become a cliché. It’s true that data is being generated at an ever-increasing rate. That increase brings challenges for storing and managing the data, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One good thing about GraphQL is that the query language makes it easy to interact with structured data and perform multiple actions with a single API call. However, that same flexibility makes APIs ...