• TheHottub@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Love GraphQL, but oh man is it being over used at my company. Management sees success with one of our large apis, now all the little niche ones have to be migrated and everyone consuming them must migrate as well.

    I like it, but the small 2 endpoint APIs that haven’t changed in years, have small 5 field models and no related entities, has like 1 or 2 teams that consume them DO NOT need it.

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      7 months ago

      LOL, “hey guys this thing hasn’t changed in years, so we need you to convert your simple API request into a big ol’ POST describing the entire model.”

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        7 months ago

        It’s old, and therefore bad.

        We really need a cultural change in this industry. Something that sits there doing its job for a decade+ with little to no change should be seen as a success.