Real-World Reasons To Use GraphQL – Workday Engineering – Medium
For building data-driven apps, GraphQL changes the game. There are a lot of great blog posts that give an overview of GraphQL, or detail why GraphQL is better than REST, but we're going to talk about why GraphQL worked well for us building a real-world, production app.
I joined Workday as part of the SkipFlag acquisition. At SkipFlag, we built an AI-powered knowledge base that leverages existing conversations, support tickets, and other communication to understand the people, topics, and facts within a company to autonomously answer questions (and we're super excited to be bringing that technology to Workday). As one can imagine, building APIs for an application with many rich, interconnected data types is a significant challenge. We started with traditional REST APIs, but eventually tried GraphQL, and never looked back.
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