Elon Musk doesn't understand GraphQL & blames 1000s of poorly-batched RPCs

Re:Elon Musk doesn't understand GraphQL & blames 1000s of po... by dakiol on Sunday November 13, 2022 @06:15PM (#33588394)

If Twitter is using RPCs is for internal communication (i.e., among microservices), so how on earth would it make a difference depending on the country? Elon doesn't know what he's talking about.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Elon Musk doesn't understand GraphQL & blames 1000s of po... by nuc1e0n on Sunday November 13, 2022 @06:43PM (#33588581)

Perhaps local backbone telecoms correspondingly differ in capabilities from one locale to another?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Elon Musk doesn't understand GraphQL & blames 1000s of po... by jkeddo on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:31PM (#33628107)

I tried my best to fill in the blanks for this story, and my working understanding is this:

1) Client requests service. 2) Service is graphQL, which makes the "thousands of calls" Musk is referring to towards other backend APIs. 3) There was an incorrect international cache/CDN configuration which hurt response time of these APIs for some countries. 4) Musk claims its the API calls causing slow performance, engineers point out that its technically the cache.

Debate is about if using graphQL is even worth it if it needs such complex caching to work well

[ Parent | on HN ]