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Is there an analog here with the recent interest in graphql?

• deleted 5y ago
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• karmakaze 5y ago
  In what way? What is GraphQL competing with? I can't think of another reasonable alternative that allows the client to specify what they want in a single round trip. What preceded GraphQL was REST with a whole lot of inconsistent include_xyz query params.
  • ako 5y ago
    Odata
  • Zababa 5y ago
    > I can't think of another reasonable alternative that allows the client to specify what they want in a single round trip I don't know much about history so that might be a wild guess, but did people try to build SQL directly from the client and send it?
    • karmakaze 5y ago
      I'm also guessing, but I suspect that the sharp rise of mobile was a contributing factor. Mobile can have good throughput but not so good latency so packing more per request makes a lot of sense. At one place I worked we actually made two BFF (backend-for-frontend) servers that took one client request, made many within datacenter requests, put a single response together and sent it all back. We had one for mobile and one for web. We only had one datacenter region so made sense for global users regardless of throughput.
      • Zababa 5y ago
        That makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing that.