Articles tagged “API”

Many developers discover automation through visual workflow builders and assume that's where automation begins. In reality, developers have been automating complex business processes for decades using tools most modern engineers have never needed to touch. Here's the full history — and why understanding it still matters.

Facebook built GraphQL to solve a real problem at genuine scale. The engineering community looked at the solution and adopted it without fully understanding the problem it was built for. Years later, many teams are maintaining schema complexity, DataLoader infrastructure, and N+1 query patterns that two well-designed REST endpoints would have prevented.