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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by benwaffle on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:50PM (#22194110)
REST can do the exact same thing.
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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by nathankunicki on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:04PM (#22194279)
With less flexibility, and more round trips.
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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by MadWombat on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:20PM (#22194440)
I am not sure about that. Both RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs need to be designed and flexibility is basicaly a measure of how good your API design is. I don't see how GraphQL is intrinsically more flexible.
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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by jsjohnst on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:16PM (#22194393)
> With less flexibility, and more round trips

That all depends on the API.

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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by nathankunicki on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:17PM (#22198035)
Sure - but if you ever want it to be as flexible as GQL, you need to implement...a query language?
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