DevConf.US 2021 is the 5th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies coming to Boston!
REST is great, except you can not ask what you really want. You get what the server gives you. Find out how to make your API queryable allowing your consumenrs to get exactly what they what. MicroProfile GraphQL fix the over and under fetch problem that exist in today's APIs, and it's easy to write! “GraphQL is a data query language developed internally by Facebook in 2012 before being publicly released in 2015. It provides an alternative to REST and ad-hoc web service architectures.” In this talk, we will Go through the basics of GraphQL Discuss the differences with REST Go through a basic example in Java. We will look at the following GraphQL concepts: Query Fragment and Named Filtering Variables Mutation Error Handling Introspections
