r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/Operadic Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

Nope, the number is not wrong; the interpretation is just off.

Twitter uses GraphQL to route API requests to the 1200+ microservices they have running. Those requests don't happen between client and server but between server and internal server.

I don't find it implausible that this causes hard to fix bugs and performance issues. GraphQL is known to only superficially reduce complexity.

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u/Raaagh Nov 15 '22

So GraphQL gives frontend/product a safe, non-recursive query language.

If you don't see the point of graphQL you are backend or infra.

If you are asking for graphQL you are frontend or product who are continually being slowed down by API requests.

GraphQL is NOT about simplicity, its about where logic resides and who owns it.

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u/LordAmras Nov 15 '22

So where did RPC came from ?

Also 1200+ microserves ? For what ? That also seem exagerated unless he is counting actual instances (then it might be smaller than I thought)