When you have separate backend and frontend teams, Conway's Law starts to rear its ugly head. GraphQL can help smooth over some of that organizational friction

When you have separate backend and frontend teams, Conway's Law starts to rear its ugly head. GraphQL can help smooth over some of that organizational friction and maybe keep the frontend team from making N+1 requests because they gotta get this feature out by the end of the sprint and backend's busy with its stuff. They tell themselves, "It'll be fine. It's performs acceptably on my machine with my company internet connection."