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Eight Years of GraphQL


Why I still enjoy using GraphQL after 8 years

The author argues that they would not recommend GraphQL anymore due to concerns like security, performance, and maintainability. While I don't think this is necessarily inherently true (One could ask customers to register queries first, figuring out the DX for this would be an interesting task), it's still a valid point. And while folks building a small RPC API may not need to implement variable rate limiting or some sort of cost categories, they almost always end up having to.

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