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Re:REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better by Aeolun on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:30AM (#25441399)
If you cache enough, your frontend dev can call as many things as they want and it will still be more or less instant.
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Re:REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better by virgilp on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:02AM (#25441602)
Some people, when confronted with a performance problem, think "I know, I'll use a cache." Now they have two problems.

(in other words: caching is complicated, and may make your systems very hard to understand & debug)

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