[barrystaes]

> it seems to focus more about the benefits of having a centralized request broker / gateway for your APIs

Exactly my thought. From article, about REST API:

> Any API change had to be deployed simultaneously to all services using that API to avoid downtime, which often went wrong and resulted in long release cycles. Using GraphQL in a single API gateway, we would simplify the service landscape drastically.

[Udik]

Why didn't they simply use api versioning?