GraphQL Description
GraphQL is both a query language for APIs and a runtime designed to execute those queries using your existing data resources. It offers a detailed and clear depiction of your API's data structure, empowering clients to request only the necessary information without excess, facilitating gradual API evolution, and supporting robust developer tools. By sending a GraphQL query to your API, you receive precisely what you need—no more, no less. The results from GraphQL queries are consistently predictable, contributing to the speed and stability of applications that utilize it, as these apps dictate their data requests rather than relying on the server. Unlike traditional REST APIs that necessitate fetching data from multiple endpoints, GraphQL allows for all required information to be obtained in a single request, making it particularly advantageous for applications operating over slow mobile networks. Furthermore, this streamlined approach enhances the overall user experience, ensuring that applications remain responsive and efficient under various conditions.
GraphQL Alternatives
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is an entirely managed service designed to simplify the process for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs, regardless of scale. Serving as the "entrance" for applications, APIs facilitate access to data, business logic, or services from the backend. Through API Gateway, developers can build both RESTful and WebSocket APIs, which are essential for enabling real-time two-way communication in applications. This service supports both containerized and serverless environments as well as web applications. It efficiently manages the complexities of processing hundreds of thousands of simultaneous API requests, handling traffic management, CORS, authorization and access control, throttling, monitoring, and versioning. Moreover, there are no upfront fees or minimum charges associated with API Gateway; instead, you only pay for the API calls and data transfer you utilize. With a tiered pricing structure, as your API usage grows, you can benefit from reduced costs, making it a cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes. Additionally, the simplicity and scalability of API Gateway allow developers to focus more on building features rather than managing infrastructure.
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Blackbird API Development
Accelerate the development of APIs that are ready for production.
AI-Powered Code Generating, Mocking within Minutes and On-Demand Ephemeral Testing Environments.
With Blackbird's proprietary technology and simple, intuitive tools, you can Spec, Mock and Write Boilerplate code faster. Validate your specs, run tests on a live environment and debug in Blackbird with your team. This will allow you to deploy your API with confidence. You can control your own test environment, whether it's on your local machine, or in the dedicated Blackbird Dev Environment. This is always available to you in your Blackbird account and there are no cloud costs.
OpenAPI standardized specs are created in seconds, so you can begin coding without spending time on your design. Mocking that is dynamic, sharable and easy to share in minutes. No need to manually write code or maintain it. Validate and go.
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Peekdata
It takes only days to wrap any data source with a single reference Data API and simplify access to reporting and analytics data across your teams. Make it easy for application developers and data engineers to access the data from any source in a streamlined manner.
- The single schema-less Data API endpoint
- Review, configure metrics and dimensions in one place via UI
- Data model visualization to make faster decisions
- Data Export management scheduling API
Our proxy perfectly fits into your current API management ecosystem (versioning, data access, discovery) no matter if you are using Mulesoft, Apigee, Tyk, or your homegrown solution.
Leverage the capabilities of Data API and enrich your products with self-service analytics for dashboards, data Exports, or custom report composer for ad-hoc metric querying. Ready-to-use Report Builder and JavaScript components for popular charting libraries (Highcharts, BizCharts, Chart.js, etc.) makes it easy to embed data-rich functionality into your products.
Your product or service users will love that because everybody likes to make data-driven decisions! And you will not have to make custom report queries anymore!
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Tyk
Tyk is an Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform that is leading in Open Source API Gateways and Management. It features an API gateway, analytics portal, dashboard, and a developer portal.
Supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
We facilitate billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations.
Tyk can be installed on-premises (Self-managed), Hybrid or fully SaaS.
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The GraphQL Foundation
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graphql.org
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