Source: thenewstack.io
The Shape of Things to Come: GraphQL and the Web of APIs
The API management industry is undergoing another transformation, with GraphQL increasingly seen as an emerging industry standard — not only for traditional Web 2.0 businesses, https://thenewstack.io/why-shopify-favors-graphql-over-rest-for-its-apis/, but also for new Web3 protocols https://thenewstack.io/apis-in-web3-with-the-graph-how-it-differs-from-web-2-0/. To find out how APIs have evolved since his Apigee days (the glory days of REST) and why he’s all-in on GraphQL now, I spoke to Jhingran via Zoom.
I began by asking how the API management industry has evolved since the early 2010s, when Apigee was managing REST APIs.
Jhingran says he doesn’t want it to take another 15 years for backend developers to get comfortable with GraphQL.
Backend developers will take more time to get comfortable using GraphQL APIs from third-party companies, although Jhingran pointed to GitHub and Shopify’s GraphQL APIs as early examples.
I began by asking how the API management industry has evolved since the early 2010s, when Apigee was managing REST APIs.
Jhingran says he doesn’t want it to take another 15 years for backend developers to get comfortable with GraphQL.
Backend developers will take more time to get comfortable using GraphQL APIs from third-party companies, although Jhingran pointed to GitHub and Shopify’s GraphQL APIs as early examples.
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