There are a number of architectural styles and syntaxes for APIs. Since almost two decades ago, REST API has been the de facto standard and it has been helping companies build their APIs and deliver products that their customers love. However, some companies found that they need another approach to solve some problems they face with their APIs.

This talk tells the story of why GraphQL was invented and what problems it contributed in solving. There’s also another story of how GraphQL was used by another company to solve a completely different problem by incorporating it into different levels of architectural stacks.