You're optimising for the wrong things. An efficient server that vends the wrong data, or that saturates the client's bandwidth, is useless. Facebook invented G

You're optimising for the wrong things. An efficient server that vends the wrong data, or that saturates the client's bandwidth, is useless. Facebook invented GraphQL for two reasons: * It allows rapid product iteration over the "social graph". It allows each product to have unique behaviours and data requirements, and new product capabilities can be rolled out quickly. Facebook's entire data layer (TAO, Ent framework) is optimised towards rapid iteration. * It optimised performance for client load times. Mobile networks are high latency and low bandwidth. GraphQL allows each application to load data in the most efficient way possible.