GraphQL then interacts with the APIs and deals with security and the oddities of each API. Like with any technology, there are negatives too. It’s another layer to maintain.

Graph-based programming was popularized by GraphQL, a data-query language introduced by Facebook in 2015. GraphQL helps developers communicate with APIs through flexible and structured data queries.

GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be ...

Cybersecurity firm Salt Labs discovered a GraphQL API authorization vulnerability in a large B2B financial technology platform. It would give attackers the ability to submit unauthorized ...

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, today announced the Apollo MCP Server, a solution that connects graph APIs to AI models using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has ...

The open-source GraphQL specification was originally developed by Facebook as an alternative to REST, providing organizations with a new way to enable more complex and dynamic data-driven APIs.

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or ...

A newly found vulnerability in GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces has been found to expose a leading business-to-business financial technology company. While the exposed ...

GraphQL’s declarative, schema-driven approach to API orchestration provides these capabilities out-of-the-box, making it suited to serve as the foundation for MCP implementations, especially in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes ...

The Graph Foundation has announced a $48 million funding grant to open-source API platform The Guild in a bid to advance usability and performance of the networks subgraphs.