
2: REST vs GraphQL with Ben Wilson
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Is GraphQL a Better Solution?
GraphQL was originally created by Netflix and Facebook where they created similar ideas to solve the same kind of problem. I think that the, my personal experience is a lot more to do with the unifying sort of disparate data sources side than it does versioning. The GraphQL server is writing essentially a data structure that describes your Schema. And amusingly, you can actually use GraphQL to ask about its own schema.
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