{"id":5245,"date":"2022-05-17T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2022-05-17T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:52:22","slug":"graphql-towards-a-declarative-model-for-a-web-of-next-gen-apis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/graphql-towards-a-declarative-model-for-a-web-of-next-gen-apis\/","title":{"rendered":"GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest RedMonk Conversation I have a spirited conversation with Anant Jhingran, CEO and co-founder of StepZen, about GraphQL and where it&#8217;s heading, in terms of solving the hard problems, for example performance. There are some core themes namely integration-first, declarative models, and coexistence with legacy. Jhingran&#8217;s experiences make for strong, well justified opinions about the role of GraphQL and how it&#8217;s likely to evolve. He&#8217;s worked in core database technology, he worked at Apigee during the original API Economy wave, he worked at Google after its acquisition. The real question is &#8211; how do you get your pudding if you don\u2019t eat your meat, or for the vegetarians how do you get your ice-cream if you don&#8217;t eat your broccoli?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video. Please comment, smash like etc.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xzj4ekf1d4s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>disclosure: this video was sponsored by StepZen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest RedMonk Conversation I have a spirited conversation with Anant Jhingran, CEO and co-founder of StepZen, about GraphQL and where it&#8217;s heading, in terms of solving the hard problems, for example performance. There are some core themes namely integration-first, declarative models, and coexistence with legacy. Jhingran&#8217;s experiences make for strong, well justified opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1mB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}