2 years ago

By now, you’ve likely heard about GraphQL and its numerous benefits, but the path to adoption may seem laborious and fettered with manual migration tasks, such as the need to define a graph and operate a GraphQL server. https://stepzen.com/, a startup https://thenewstack.io/stepzen-one-api-to-connect-all-the-data/ last year by former members of the API management platform https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/08/google-will-acquire-apigee-for-625-million/, helps with the move to GraphQL by providing developers with a managed GraphQL service that simplifies the process of fetching data from numerous sources.

In a world of REST APIs, GraphQL was the answer they were looking for, said Maggs. StepZen provides a single GraphQL endpoint from which you can call multiple APIs, even legacy REST APIs, handling functionality like error handling, caching, return logic and path optimization along the way.

In addition to GraphQL Studio, StepZen has also launched http://json2sdl.com/, an introspection tool that transforms JSON data to Schema Definitition Language (SDL), again focusing on this transition from REST to GraphQL.