REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better

Re:REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better by haimez on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:35PM (#25438748)

> Instead, you need to make separate parallel requests for those datapoints and let the dataloader be in charge of merging them into larger batches of requests for the db to fullfill. > This can result in some additional latency on a request, but ultimately provides the best way to be able to scale things out.

I promise you, this is not the best way to scale things out.

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Re:REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better by Aeolun on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:14AM (#25441666)

You cannot make a statement like that and then not provide an alternative. Personally I think dataloader makes amazing use of Javascript async.

There may be other ways to scale things out, but that doesn’t mean this one isn’t good.

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