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Are you sure? GraphQL, with no extra effort, gives your Business Intelligence unit everything they need? GraphQL, "for free", populates a hot cache of your 10%

Are you sure? GraphQL, with no extra effort, gives your Business Intelligence unit everything they need? GraphQL, "for free", populates a hot cache of your 10% most active data? GraphQL, with no effort, feeds historical data to your AI prediction engine, and also provides a high level summary to your CEO, and combines multiple databases into a unified view of inventory? Most companies have denormalize data to a great many materialized views, to support multiple use cases. I don't see how GraphQL gives you those materialized views for free. I admit, I have not worked with GraphQL since 2017, and maybe the eco-system has come a long way. But at the time, we were doing all the work ourselves, and much of it was redundant with other efforts we had ongoing.

lkrubner 7y ago
Are you sure? GraphQL, with no extra effort, gives your Business Intelligence unit everything they need? GraphQL, "for free", populates a hot cache of your 10% most active data? GraphQL, with no effort, feeds historical data to your AI prediction engine, and also provides a high level summary to your CEO, and combines multiple databases into a unified view of inventory? Most companies have denormalize data to a great many materialized views, to support multiple use cases. I don't see how GraphQL gives you those materialized views for free. I admit, I have not worked with GraphQL since 2017, and maybe the eco-system has come a long way. But at the time, we were doing all the work ourselves, and much of it was redundant with other efforts we had ongoing.
thom 7y ago
If GraphQL advocates (and dare I say consultants) are suggesting you build every single part of your business off of GraphQL then yes that seems absurd. That’s not really how I’ve seen it used though.
kthejoker2 7y ago
So ... assuming you have an OLAP engine or as a fallback some analytics-friendly MVs, couldn't GraphQL be laid on top of those, too? Why does it have to be either/or?

lkrubner 7y ago

thom 7y ago

If GraphQL advocates (and dare I say consultants) are suggesting you build every single part of your business off of GraphQL then yes that seems absurd. That’s not really how I’ve seen it used though.

kthejoker2 7y ago

So ... assuming you have an OLAP engine or as a fallback some analytics-friendly MVs, couldn't GraphQL be laid on top of those, too? Why does it have to be either/or?