Facebook Boston tech talk: GraphQL
Mar 16, 2016Ryan Mack

Summary
This post introduces GraphQL, a query language developed by Facebook in 2012 to address the data-fetching needs of its mobile applications. It highlights GraphQL's flexibility, ease of use for product developers, and its significant adoption, powering billions of API calls daily. The post also mentions GraphQL's subscription capability for real-time updates and its open-sourcing in 2015, encouraging wider adoption by client application developers.