A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

Is the GraphQL hype over? In this article, WunderGraph uses BigQuery to compare datasets from Google Trends, HackerNews, GitHub and StackOverflow, in an attempt to determine whether interest in GraphQL is in decline.

GraphQL represents a fundamental shift in how developers build features. In this article, Joe Staller hypothesizes how a decoupled schema can provide the kind of flexibility that enables a zero-downtime migration - allowing partially-complete features to be shipped.

GraphQL makes writing queries across related datasets super convenient. Unfortunately, this can lead to computationally expensive queries that slow down the server. In this article, Kumar Abhirup looks at how implementing rate and depth limiting can help to reduce the complexity of queries - significantly improving the performance of a GraphQL server, and reducing the impact of malicious attacks.

GraphQL helps to encapsulate the interconnected relationship between entities in an application. In this article, Abu Sakib steps through modeling the schema for an Instagram clone, and how this could be implemented using Dgraphql Cloud.

Is GraphQL actually a replacement for REST? In this article, Suhas Deshpande explains how Courier are using a combination of both to serve their customers, and why it might not be as simple as implementing one option or the other.