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Re:Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End by agentultra on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:34AM (#14358227)
> So... you're still locking people in

Quite the opposite! It's no different than using Amazon RDS or PostgreSQL in Azure. All of your usual tools for managing and integrating PostgreSQL still work.

The benefit of my system is that it's an easy in to the GraphQL world. You integrate all of your data and services via boring, old PostgreSQL and it just works. My stack takes care of caching, analytics, integration, scaling, etc.

GraphQL is an emerging API specification that, I believe, will ultimately supplant REST in the long term.

> "awesome tool" (PostgREST) is awesome, "awesome tool as a service" (Graphcool, Postgraph) is dangerous.

Are you implying that on-prem software is the only way?

Re:Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End by piaste on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:39AM (#14366681)
> Are you implying that on-prem software is the only way?

I'm stating that having the option to switch to on-prem is extremely important for your business plan. It puts a hard ceiling on how much your cloud provider can squeeze you for.