Thanks for saying that. I haven’t used GraphQL but when I read about it I was like “Isn’t this basically RPC again? Like XML-RPC (for those that remember that) and SOAP?”

To me the acid test, since getting burnt by both XML-RPC and SOAP has always been “can I drop a standard HTTP proxy Like nginx between this thing the layer behind or in front to cache reads?”

GraphQL _seems_ like you can’t really do that so you end up having to build caching into your app, which in turn - in my experience - always leads to systems you can’t predictably reason about