Tangential from a discussion in TFA about GraphQL: > One benefit of GraphQL was to solve the “waterfall” problem of traditional REST APIs by allowing clients t

Tangential from a discussion in TFA about GraphQL: > One benefit of GraphQL was to solve the “waterfall” problem of traditional REST APIs by allowing clients to ask for multiple pieces of data in one query. For example, instead of making three sequential HTTP calls: GET /user GET /user/friends GET /user/friends/photos …you can write one GraphQL query to fetch it all at once. Or you could have designed a schema to allow easy tree traversal. Or you could use a recursive CTE.