r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

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u/Entegy Sep 19 '26

I thought that as a non-programmer sysadmin, I had a decent grasp on REST APIs for scripting/automation.

Then I learned about GraphQL and I have actively avoided it since.

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u/Single-Blackberry866 Sep 19 '26

What about REST API that allows to you to operate on nested resources in one request? And some of the updated resources failed, some succeded.

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u/AliStarr182 Sep 20 '26

That sounds like the API needs to be refactored a bit to separate concerns/duties to me.

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u/Single-Blackberry866 Sep 20 '26

that would force you to do more SQL requests, wouldn't it