After the introduction back in 2015, GraphQL has come a long way to view as an alternative or a better way of implementing APIs over REST API architecture. In the beginning, developers saw advantages as well as many disadvantages of GraphQL compared to REST. Now GraphQL has become more matured during the past six years and many for many of these disadvantages, solutions can be identified through the GraphQL ecosystem itself. In this article am going to walk through some of the most common disadvantages identified in GraphQL and what solutions available for them in the current GraphQL ecosystem.

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GraphQL is an open-source query and data manipulation language for APIs created by Facebook back in 2015. Although it is defined by the community as a probable replacement for REST, depending on each API architecture and requirements, some projects might be suitable for GraphQL API while others might be suitable for REST API. But due to its popularity for past years some major companies have already migrated their APIs to GraphQL APIs while some have opted for hybrid approach of using both REST and GraphQL at the same time.

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AWS Amplify

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What is GraphQL

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A beginner’s guide to the Kubernetes platform

With the introduction of containers, software application deployment quickly adopted containers for deployments due to its vast advantages over conventional deployments on servers or on virtual machines. Not only that but almost all of the cloud providers also have full support for container deployments which makes it very easy for developers around the world. Now, with this new container, deployments became another problem for developers as they worked to figure out how to manage these containers on a large scale.

The solution for that problem was to have a platform that could orchestrate…

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that is created by Google in 2014. It is an open-source platform where currently many organizations widely use for container deployment and management. Although there are other container orchestration tools are available in the community like Docker Swarm, Kubernetes remains in the top for container orchestration due to its features and flexible usability.

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