Viaduct: When Airbnb Said 'Hold My GraphQL' to the Entire Industry
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You know how most companies build a GraphQL API, hit some scaling issues, and then write a blog post about it? Airbnb took a different approach: they built an entire data-oriented service mesh, ran it for five years at massive scale, and then open-sourced it. Meet Viaduct - GraphQL's ambitious cousin who went to architecture school.