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		pknopf on June 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut a... > The goal here is to generate a typed API across a bunch of microservices You are describing gRPC.

vertex-four on June 11, 2020 [–]

I'm describing a lot of things, JSON-Schema documented REST APIs being another one. The other thing about GraphQL is that you can make a query that contains multiple requests and allows the server to optimise how to process them, which is not something that REST or gRPC are very good at.

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