Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

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Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

GraphQL gives clients who call your Web services the ability to specify what properties of your data objects they want. Here are two ways to let those clients also specify which data objects they want ...