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GraphQL API Development: Production-Ready Patterns for Modern Backend Services

GraphQL API Development: Production-Ready Patterns for Modern Backend Services

Paperback

General ComputersProgramming

ISBN13: 9798187307418
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.65 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Building a GraphQL API is easy.

Shipping one that survives real users, real traffic, and real deadlines? That's where things get interesting.

In GraphQL API Development: Production-Ready Patterns for Modern Backend Services, Roman Estavelle takes you beyond Hello World schemas and into the messy, rewarding reality of production GraphQL systems.

This book is for backend engineers, full-stack developers, and tech leads who already know what GraphQL is - and now want to use it properly. No fluff. No magical thinking. Just practical patterns, hard-earned lessons, and a few scars from real-world deployments.

You'll start by understanding why GraphQL succeeds where REST struggles, then move straight into schema design that won't collapse six months later. From resolver architecture and data fetching strategies to authentication, authorization, and performance tuning, each chapter focuses on decisions that matter once users show up.

We'll tackle the problems everyone hits:

  1. Slow queries and the dreaded N+1 problem
  2. Overgrown schemas no one wants to touch
  3. Authorization logic scattered everywhere
  4. Flexible APIs that bring down production
  5. Federated GraphQL setups that looked great... on slides

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