GraphQL: A data query language - Facebook Engineering
When we built Facebook’s mobile applications, we needed a data-fetching API powerful enough to describe all of Facebook, yet simple enough to be easy to learn and use by our product developers. We developed GraphQL three years ago to fill this need. Today it powers hundreds of billions of API calls a day. This year [...]Read More...
14 Sep 2015 ... We evaluated our options for delivering News Feed data to our mobile apps, including RESTful server resources and FQL tables (Facebook's ...