Many years ago I worked at a company that had built a janky version of GraphQL in-house. The model fit our use case perfectly: our customers were dealing with a

Many years ago I worked at a company that had built a janky version of GraphQL in-house. The model fit our use case perfectly: our customers were dealing with a complicated ontology of objects and it allowed us to build new UIs on top of that data without implementing new REST apis. Of course our implementation wasn't the best but for a certain class of applications the graph-query model is a godsend.