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by mattbrewsbytes 984 days ago
When you have performance issues with hand crafted REST API's, a GraphQL enabled set of API's feels like it could be a lot worse. Huge volumes of data for tables don't blend well with a mix-n-match way of joining things.
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I am curious how do you do performant joins between different REST APIs?
How do you do it in graphql? You are going to hit multiple APIs that aren't integrated so it will be multiple requests. One request to a graphql server and multiple requests to other APIs isn't faster than doing just the requests to the different APIs. Actually it might be faster.