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by say-vagnes 2172 days ago
I feel like GraphQL is the new NoSQL. Not just that it's mistakenly adopted, but also that it is quite valuable for the right use cases, but the public doesn't seem to understand what those are.

Do you really, _really_ need to support queries? 99/100, I'd guess no, and thus constraining people to a more defined interface and access pattern is simpler.
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what-the-grump 2170 days ago
Oh... you need to fill your RDMS with a bunch of JSON responses from your 3rd party API. So you can then decode them in memory because I actually need to select * where identifier = 'banana' to do analytics.

Meanwhile the API returns highly structured data perfect for a RDMS, but we dont know how to query SQL without an API in the frontend. So welcome to my hell.

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