For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.

In 2015, GraphQL went open source. Mark Olson, senior communications manager at Trulia, explained that GraphQL is an alternative to REST API.

WSO2 GraphQL is the better REST GraphQL, introduced by Facebook in 2012 and publicly released in 2015, is an application-layer protocol designed to enhance RESTful API calls.

REST APIs have become the workhorse of modern, API-driven application development. By adding this new conversion utility, IT organizations do not have to create and manage a separate set of APIs.

With REST, you send a request to a request-specific URL and receive the results in whatever format makes sense for the application. Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API.

Apollo GraphQL has announced a public preview of Apollo Connectors, which enables developers to turn a REST API into a GraphQL endpoint.

Salt Security CEO Roey Eliyahu said GraphQL provides some advantages in query options compared to REST APIs, but this flexibility comes with risk. A single API call can include multiple separate ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes ...

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced the Apollo MCP Server, a solution that connects graph APIs to AI models using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has ...