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Brecht De Rooms

Brecht De Rooms

Brecht De Rooms is a senior developer advocate at Fauna. He is a programmer who has worked extensively in IT as a full-stack developer and researcher in both the startup and IT consultancy worlds. It is his mission to shed light on emerging and powerful technologies that make it easier for developers to build apps and services that will captivate users.
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Native GraphQL, GraphQL as a Database Query Language
GraphQL Galaxy 2020GraphQL Galaxy 2020
8 min
Native GraphQL, GraphQL as a Database Query Language
GraphQL was originally not designed as a database language yet it's quickly becoming a popular choice to interact with databases. What if databases natively support GraphQL default? What are the advantages of native GraphQL support? How is a GraphQL query handled behind the scenes in FaunaDB and what database guarantees does such an approach provide?
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