REST vs GraphQL in Practice
The Real Trade-offs After building APIs with both REST and GraphQL, I've learned that the choice isn't about which is "better" but about what your c…
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The Real Trade-offs After building APIs with both REST and GraphQL, I've learned that the choice isn't about which is "better" but about what your c…
Introduction & Industry Context The backbone of modern distributed systems, microservices, and client-server architectures is the Application Pr…
I am a full-stack developer in the Netherlands, a bit over ten years in. For the last year my evenings have gone into one side project: I Like Movie…
I Gave Five Graph Databases 256MB of RAM Each. Here's What Broke. CognoDB Cloud's free tier gives you a graph database instance with half a CPU core…
You will catch a GraphQL N+1 much earlier by counting how many times your batch loader is called against a temporary mock server than by measuring r…
The Practical Differences When I started building APIs, REST was the default. Then GraphQL came along and promised to fix everything. After using bo…
TL;DR The N+1 problem is a general data-access anti-pattern that can appear in REST, resolver-based GraphQL, and federated GraphQL at different laye…
I just shipped 5 new tools to DevNestio — a hub of 172 free, browser-only developer utilities. All tools are zero-signup, zero-upload, and work offl…
For decades we've had exactly two bad options for "read something using a complex input": cram everything into a GET URL, or lie and use POST. In Ju…
A dashboard I built was taking 4+ seconds to load. Products, orders, inventory, customer data — each query waited politely for the one before it to…
API tooling is having a rough year, and that's actually the interesting part. Postman killed free teams in March. Insomnia forced cloud sync in v8 a…
Originally published on the Kolachi Tech blog . Canonical link points back to the original. If you treat Shopify's GraphQL Admin API like a REST end…
When designing a web application, one of the most critical decisions developers face is choosing the right API architecture. With the rise of REST (…
В статье описан практический опыт интеграции ERP‑системы с 1С. В материале я рассказываю: • почему мы выбрали микросервисную архитектуру •…
If you use the GitHub GraphQL API for team notification dashboards, audit-log exports, or any kind of organization compliance reporting, you have ni…
If you build on Shopify long enough, you hit the wall. Throttled requests. Stalled inventory syncs. Webhook backlogs piling up during a flash sale.…
Everyone's building agents. Half of them are running. The other half have "active plans." I've been in both camps. The difference isn't the model. M…
GraphQL: A Complete Guide for Developers in 2026 NEWS: MY GAME JUST LAUNCHED Flip Duel Card Battle - Apps on Google Play Outsmart rivals in 1v1 card…
Rate limiting is a critical security mechanism that protects your APIs from brute-force attacks, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attempts, and…
Building a Metadata-Driven Runtime API Platform for Analytics Systems 1. Business Problem When I joined this project as a consultant, I almost said…
Published 2026-05-28 by Shubham Bhati — Backend Engineer (Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices). As backend engineers, we've all been there - stuck w…
DataLoader is the standard fix for GraphQL's N+1 query problem. Batch your database calls per request, cache within the request lifecycle, done. But…
Real-World GraphQL Authorization Bypass CVE Example Code Review A tenant isolation bug in a GraphQL API differs from a REST IDOR in one uncomfortabl…
TL;DR: REST security testing is built around a set of structural assumptions: fixed endpoints, predictable HTTP methods, consistent response shapes.…
In 2024, 68% of React teams adopting Server Components report 40%+ latency reductions, but 72% of GraphQL APIs still serve 3x more data than clients…