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

Earlier this week the first release of the GraphQL spec, ratified by the GraphQL Foundation, was released to the public. Lee Byron goes over why it took over 3 years since the last ratified release, what's new in the 2021 spec and what's next!

Leonardo Losoviz wrote up a great summary of GraphQL Conf 2021, which took place a couple of weeks ago. He watched all of the recordings and summarized talks on schema stitching, federation, architecture, and more.

Salma Alam-Naylor explains how using GraphQL variables adds an extra layer of protection for your APIs by adding type safety and providing more documentation to your users. And then she dives deeper into what is and isn't possible using variables.

Krzysztof Lis wrote a guest series on the AWS Compute blog about IMDb's journey from a monolithic REST API to GraphQL. The third, and final, article goes into detail on how they are monitoring their AWS Lambda based API and what steps they have taken to tune performance.