It was designed by Facebook to allow its mobile clients to define exactly what data should be sent back by an API and therefore avoid unnecessary roundtrips and data usage, GraphQL is a JSON-based query language for APIs. Since it was open-sourced by Facebook in 2015, there has been a lot of innovation in this area, and now building a GraphQL server is possible in almost all programming languages.
A year ago Netflix open-sourced their GraphQL frame­work, DGS Framework giving GraphQL in the Java microservice world an extra boost. This is an annotation-driven library for Spring Boot.
Join this session to learn how to convert your traditional Spring Boot microservice to a GraphQL server in 16 minutes. Learn tips and tricks and most importantly experience how your APIs become flexible, robust, and future-proof by GraphQL-ify.