It’s 2020 and the need for being digitally available has become a demand. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, I believe you’d agree that it has become an utmost necessity.

Having an online presence alone doesn’t make your business run forefront, but other factors like time to market with good user experience matter a lot. Undoubtedly, the application development shift towards a microservices architecture with an emphasis on flexibility and time to market, tools like GraphQL are redefining API design and the interaction between the client-server, that enhances the developer’s productivity and experience with minimal data transfers.

Today, GraphQL powers a variety of companies such as Airbnb, Atlassian, Audi, CNBC, GitHub, Netflix, Shopify, The New York Times, Twitter, and Pinterest. GraphQL also powers hundreds of billions of API calls a day on Facebook social media platforms.

In this blog series, we are going to focus on GraphQL: What is GraphQL, How is GraphQL different from REST APIs, and testing GraphQL APIs. Finally, we shall also delve into some of the cross-functional testing strategies like load testing.

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