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Re:How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha by pknopf on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:35AM (#23489341)
> The goal here is to generate a typed API across a bunch of microservices

You are describing gRPC.

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Re:How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha by vertex-four on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:03AM (#23489622)
I'm describing a lot of things, JSON-Schema documented REST APIs being another one. The other thing about GraphQL is that you can make a query that contains multiple requests and allows the server to optimise how to process them, which is not something that REST or gRPC are very good at.
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