Today's applications want it all, and the databases powering them are forced to follow: Auto-deployment and scalability both on-premise and in the cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, plus resilience, ...

The name kind of gives it away, but Apollo GraphQL has long focused on helping developers use the GraphQL query language for APIs to integrate data from a variety of services. Over the course of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GraphQL may end up having as much impact as SQL did, by simplifying the process of querying any data system. GraphQL, an emerging standard for querying multiple types of data systems, is shifting the ...

Developers tend to love GraphQL for API development and querying, or they hate it. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly of this REST alternative on the rise. If your team is building an API, there’s ...