Re:GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard
by lkrubner on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:48PM
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Are you sure? GraphQL, with no extra effort, gives your Business Intelligence unit everything they need? GraphQL, "for free", populates a hot cache of your 10% most active data? GraphQL, with no effort, feeds historical data to your AI prediction engine, and also provides a high level summary to your CEO, and combines multiple databases into a unified view of inventory?
Most companies have denormalize data to a great many materialized views, to support multiple use cases. I don't see how GraphQL gives you those materialized views for free. I admit, I have not worked with GraphQL since 2017, and maybe the eco-system has come a long way. But at the time, we were doing all the work ourselves, and much of it was redundant with other efforts we had ongoing.
If GraphQL advocates (and dare I say consultants) are suggesting you build every single part of your business off of GraphQL then yes that seems absurd. That’s not really how I’ve seen it used though.
Re:GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard
by kthejoker2 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:09AM
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So ... assuming you have an OLAP engine or as a fallback some analytics-friendly MVs, couldn't GraphQL be laid on top of those, too? Why does it have to be either/or?
Most companies have denormalize data to a great many materialized views, to support multiple use cases. I don't see how GraphQL gives you those materialized views for free. I admit, I have not worked with GraphQL since 2017, and maybe the eco-system has come a long way. But at the time, we were doing all the work ourselves, and much of it was redundant with other efforts we had ongoing.