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title: "A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs."
date: 2022-05-25T16:57:46Z
modified: 2024-01-19T20:33:04Z
permalink: "https://redmonk.com/videos/a-redmonk-conversation-graphql-towards-a-declarative-model-for-a-web-of-next-gen-apis/"
type: video
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 3014
series:
  - Conversations
channel:
  - RedMonk Video
featured_image: "https://redmonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RMC-StepZen-Thumbnail-1.png"
timestamp: 2024-01-19T20:33:04Z
tags:
  - Conversations
  - RedMonk Video
---

In this video I caught up Anant Jhingran, CEO and co-founder of StepZen, a GraphQL platform. His experiences make for strong, well justified opinions about the role of GraphQL, it’s present and future. He’s worked in core database technology, he worked at Apigee during the original API Economy wave, he worked at Google after the acquisition. What should the GraphQL experience be like, and how are folks going to take advantage of it.

## Rather listen to this conversation as a podcast?