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How to Set Up a Scalable and Highly-Available GraphQL API in Minutes

April 21, 2022

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How to Set Up a Scalable and Highly-Available GraphQL API in Minutes

A modern GraphQL API layer for cloud native applications needs to possess two characteristics: horizontal scalability and high availability.

Horizontal scalability adds more machines to your API infrastructure, whereas vertical scalability adds more CPUs, RAM, and other resources to an existing machine that runs the API layer. While vertical scalability works to a certain extent, the horizontally scalable API layer can scale beyond the capacity of a single machine.

When it comes to high availability,

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Deploy a Real-Time Polling App with Hasura Cloud and YugabyteDB Managed

June 23, 2021

By Nikhil Chandrappa

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Deploy a Real-Time Polling App with Hasura Cloud and YugabyteDB Managed

Hasura is a leading vendor in the GraphQL ecosystem, offering a powerful alternative to REST for building microservices and mobile applications. Hasura’s open source GraphQL Engine connects to your database and instantly auto-generates a production-ready GraphQL API backend. YugabyteDB, the open source distributed SQL database, is a perfect complement to GraphQL giving you horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and global data distribution in a single system. YugabyteDB eliminates many of the scaling and resilience limitations of a traditional monolithic RDBMS.

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YugabyteDB and Hasura Make it Easier to Build Complex, Global Applications

June 23, 2021

By Gavin Johnson

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YugabyteDB and Hasura Make it Easier to Build Complex, Global Applications

We partnered with Hasura to build an integration between the YugabyteDB Managed database and Hasura Cloud and to make building complex, global applications easier. Read the blog to learn more.

Scaling a Hasura GraphQL Backend with Distributed SQL

April 7, 2020

By Vladimir Novick

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Scaling a Hasura GraphQL Backend with Distributed SQL

GraphQL is taking the modern development world by storm having been adopted by companies like Facebook, GitHub and Intuit because it solves many of the common problems developers encounter when working with REST APIs. For example, it solves issues like overfetching (getting more data than your response needs) and underfetching (having to make multiple fetches to get all the data you need), or when consolidating API responses on the client is necessary. When a developer follows the GraphQL spec,

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