Understanding data loading challenges in GraphQL

This article demonstrates how to eliminate N+1 queries in GraphQL Ruby

Almost every REST API must have some sort of authentication. One of the most common headers is call Authorization. Wait a minute, we are talking about authentication but why the Authorization header?

Webhooks are the mechanism through which data from an API can be delivered proactively. This post shares some high-level insights behind why you should include webhooks and how to add them to your API the right way.

While there are as many proprietary authentication methods as there are systems which utilize them, they are largely variations of a few major approaches. In this post, I will go over the 4 most used in the REST APIs and microservices world.