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The comment about Netflix was suppposed to be a hyperbole. I would be curious how Netflix itself justifies this except for: we wanted to do this cool thing, so

• hibikir 3y ago
  Netflix might be a good example of where GraphQL is good: There's not one frontend, and one working app, but many, just by hardware platforms they support. Add to that changes in behavior for different regulators, licensing agreements and such, and I bet there's a bunch of bespoke little frontend things that need slightly different information from each other. In that environment, queries aren't really completely free flow, which is what could ge you in trouble, but it might be nice to provide cheap customization of the API, instead of building bespoke backend tweaks for every one of those bespoke frontends. It's ultimately not unlike how people wonder why the Uber app is so big, when everything seems so simple to them: Each interaction appears simple, but put all the interactions from every person together, and the problem is far harder than it seems.