Architecture · 2015–2023 · Platform Wars
GraphQL Everywhere
Clients ask for exactly what they need — and sometimes invent a second backend team to make that safe.
How GraphQL Everywhere mutated
GraphQL mutated API design for product-heavy frontends that hated over-fetching. The everywhere hype cooled; it stuck as a niche API layer. It failed as a global REST replacement because caching, authorization, and N+1 resolvers are hard at scale.
Patterns
