GraphQL Web Editor - The First Serverless Function?

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Graphcool was an incredible domain name. It made it really easy for them to quickly work with GraphQL. But what we also saw was that a lot of developers started out using GraphQL, but then as soon as they wanted to build something real and deployed to production,. That's when they actually moved off of Graphql and built their own GraphQl servers from scratch. So once we realized that GraphQL isn't really the sustainable kind of business on which the next Twitter or Airbnb would be built, we decided to take the core of what was Graph SQL back then. We had this integration with serverless functions that if you needed some custom functionality in your Graph QLSschema

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