REST has made publishing HTTP APIs easier, and its benefits on development haven’t gone unnoticed. But, if you need more than basic CRUD operations — or more complex aggregations and transformations — REST can be tough to work with. That’s where GraphQL comes in. Use REST to expose your data the way it exists in your system while giving API consumers a clean GraphQL interface on top to get what they want — and only what they want. In this session, you will learn: • Ways to layer GraphQL capabilities on top of your REST APIs without having to rebuild them • When and why you’d use REST vs. GraphQL • What the future of APIs and integrations could look like
