Most of the time when you’re building a backend, it takes more than a database. In this blog post, we’ll create voting system for games that uses CockroachDB and the Steam REST API. Data from both sources is combined in a GraphQL API using StepZen.
In this blog post, we will explore how developers can use StepZen and Neo4j to build powerful GraphQL APIs that can transform how we build applications.
StepZen is dedicated to simplifying the creation of secure, high-performance GraphQL APIs. With our new reporting feature, you can easily monitor your GraphQL API's performance and identify areas for improvement.
StepZen's new Getting Started experience is growing backend options for GraphQL development. Snowflake is an innovative multi-cloud data infrastructure that scales well with GraphQL federation.
StepZen's new Getting Started experience is now available, including a new visual GraphQL API builder and a fresh UX design. With this new experience, you can build a GraphQL API on your data in under 5 minutes.
StepZen is now an IBM company. We are excited to join forces with IBM to help developers, businesses and enterprises get more business value from their data and APIs.
Let's build a login flow based on JWTs with Auth0, Next.js, and StepZen. This post will show how to create a fullstack application that uses Auth0 to handle the login flow and a StepZen GraphQL API to validate the JWT and provide the data.
At StepZen, we've been working hard to make building GraphQL APIs for all your Data as easy as possible. And every month, the StepZen team shares the latest updates about the product with the community.
Directives are a powerful way to extend the functionality of GraphQL. But did you know that directives can be applied to multiple locations in GraphQL? This post will look at the difference between type system directive locations and executable directive locations.
OpenAI helps deploy a StepZen endpoint by debugging a GraphQL query response error and schema.
This blog explores how to use StepZen to build a GraphQL API that accesses a Snowflake warehouse.
Welcome to 2023! At StepZen, we worked hard in 2022 to make building GraphQL APIs for all your Data as easy as possible. Let's look back and ahead!
Last year, StepZen joined the GraphQL Foundation as a Service Provider and a member. But why did we join? What does it mean to be a member of the GraphQL Foundation? And what does it mean for you as a developer using GraphQL?
StepZen now supports GraphQL subscriptions for every Data Source! Including REST APIs, Databases (SQL & NoSQL), and other GraphQL APIs. Subscriptions can be created in the same declarative way as any other operation type in StepZen.
We have launched our StepZen integration on the Vercel Marketplace, making it the easiest way to build fullstack GraphQL projects with StepZen and Vercel.
StepZen now supports Snowflake as a data source! With StepZen and Snowflake, you can build modern data-heavy applications in the cloud.
Now a technology partner in SingleStore Connect, StepZen helps developers build GraphQL APIs to deliver the fast operational analytics computed by SingleStoreDB.
Error handling in GraphQL is a topic that's often discussed in the GraphQL community. In this blog post, we'll be looking at the different ways to handle errors in GraphQL and, specifically, how to use the "errors as data" approach as an alternative.
What's new with StepZen this month? We have a big announcement to make, as we launched subscriptions. With SingleStore we announced a new partnership, and lots of new integrations are added.
GraphQL supports subscriptions. StepZen makes it really easy, but unlike other systems, any query can be converted to a subscription. The query does not have to be against a single database. This blog describes how easy it is in StepZen to run subscriptions and announces its availability for the StepZen managed cloud service.
GraphQL supports subscriptions. StepZen makes it really easy, but unlike other systems, any query can be converted to a subscription. The query does not have to be against a single database. This blog describes how easy it is in StepZen to run subscriptions.
Today's app developer is fetching data from multiple sources - databases, APIs (first and third-party) - with all sorts of specifications. With GraphQL becoming popular to federate data, this post looks at how to compose data from Fauna and GitHub using GraphQL and StepZen.
GraphQL is very good at helping you compose your data from different data sources, and type extensions help you with data modeling. In this post, we'll look at how to use type extensions to model different data sources in GraphQL.
SingleStore and StepZen are a powerful combination that simplifies data access for developers. Application programmers can use StepZen to quickly build and deploy a GraphQL API to deliver the fast operational analytics computed by SingleStoreDB.
When you're writing client-side code to make API requests, you might need a Proxy Server to hide your API Credentials. Let's see how to do this for a React application that uses Apollo Client and StepZen.
GraphQL APIs are becoming the defacto API standard. But what if you want to use a GraphQL API in a legacy application that only supports REST? This blog post will show you how to use Kong to turn your StepZen GraphQL APIs into REST.
How to orchestrate a StepZen-based application together with its dependent data source and the StepZen service providing the GraphQL API endpoint services using Docker Compose.
Hacktoberfest 2022 is about to start! Join us for the latest edition of Hacktoberfest by contributing to StepZen. Contributors will receive StepZen goodies and Hacktoberfest swag.
In this post we will go over the challenges of caching a GraphQL API and how an API gateway can help with this. By using Kong as an API gateway for StepZen GraphQL APIs
Ongoing change in the StepZen backend data model made our existing REST API obsolete. Instead of rewriting the REST API to match the backend changes, we built a GraphQL API on top of a PostgreSQL database to match the new backend data model.
Announcement! Everyone can now locally develop GraphQL APIs with Docker.
The StepZen Dashboard is your go-to portal for assessing your GraphQL endpoints and the resources to help you scale your endpoints. Today we're adding a couple of key new capabilities.
The winners of our 6-week hackathon, "The StepZen GraphQL Challenge", are announced! Congratulations, and thanks for your participation.
How to quickly enable GraphQL subgraphs created in StepZen for Apollo Federation. Whether you build new subgraphs, or proxy existing subgraphs (no need to to modify them), StepZen can significantly accelerate development and connect well-designed subgraphs to the Apollo Federation layer.
What's new with StepZen this month? The final week of the StepZen GraphQL Challenge on Devpost.com is approaching, we launched new analytics on the StepZen Dashboard, and StepZen became part of the GraphQL Foundation.
We are excited to announce that StepZen has joined the GraphQL Foundation. As a Service Provider and a member of the Foundation, we look forward to collaborating and contributing to this vibrant community.
Analyze individual endpoints and connect to StepZen GraphQL endpoints in seconds with new features in the StepZen Dashboard.
Inspired by a tweet from Werner Vogels this week this blog explores what it takes to have our software operated for decades after we write it.
We're announcing our 6-week hackathon, "The StepZen GraphQL Challenge"! The challenge brings developers together online to learn and uplevel GraphQL skills.
What's new with StepZen this month? The launch of REST2GraphQL.io, DataStax Astra connection and a sneak peek at our upcoming GraphQL Hackathon. Here's the roll-up.
What's new with StepZen this month? PlanetScale integration, a new community tutorial, StepZen for federation, and a sneak peek for product updates. Here's the roll-up.
Our customers often have data lakes or data warehouses — one place where analytical workloads are executed against a global truth of data. Many have a master data management (MDM) strategy for "slower moving data." But data lakes and MDMs are not the whole story. A GraphQL data layer — a graph of graphs — can help you achieve a single global truth for all your data.
It is possible to build a GraphQL system where both the setup and the execution of interactions are declarative. This blog describes how building subgraphs and composing a supergraph from them can all be done declaratively - leading to simpler and cleaner code to write and maintain, and delivering all the benefits of a better runtime.
What's new with StepZen this month? Web3, HarperDB integration, converting REST APIs to GraphQL from your terminal, etc. Here's the roll-up.
Performance is an important issue for APIs. It's well understood that user engagement with an application drops quickly with increases in latency. This blog explores the important metrics for GraphQL APIs, and introduces a GraphQL Benchmark tool that will help you track your GraphQL performance.
What's new with StepZen this month? An updated "getting started" experience, new features for your StepZen dashboard, mocking capabilities, and more. Here's the roll-up.
Announcing the launch of a simplified Getting Started Experience. With a quick-start wizard and in just three commands you can quickly turn your database or REST endpoint into a GraphQL API running securely on StepZen’s highly performant, globally distributed service.
In the world of software architecture there are many “-ilities” that we must take into consideration with every project. Here we discuss StepZen's approach to availability and overall considerations for ensuring the system is up and running.
StepZen is proud to partner with Google Cloud to enable next-generation API Management for GraphQL. Together we provide the best approach for developers to build and manage GraphQL and REST APIs - a set of building blocks, assembled, and delivered as-a-service.
The ability to delivery continuously and get changes of all types into production and into the hands of our users, safely and quickly, is an imperative for modern startups and established enterprises alike. This article describes how we balance shipping quickly and running a reliable service at StepZen.
Announcing the launch of StepZen GraphQL Studio. This intuitive and streamlined GraphQL IDE delivers a suite of popular and useful APIs that StepZen has transformed into flexible GraphQL schemas that can be used individually or in combinations, and makes GraphQL significantly easier to adopt and use for any size project.
Learn about the GitHub repositories we've opened up to Hacktoberfest 2021 contributions.
Frontend developers are asked to build engaging online experiences. They need data from the backends. They must perform actions against backends. GraphQL APIs are fast becoming the language of modern app development. But who builds those APIs? Are they built quickly or are frontend developers left waiting? Who runs and manages the APIs?
Using the StepZen Netlify build plugin, the deployment of a single GraphQL endpoint, built on StepZen, is simple and seamless, and happens within your Netlify build.
Along with the mintbean.io team, we wrapped a GraphQL:Learn 'n Hack Hackathon last week. Developers had a blast building with GraphQL and we loved working with everybody. Here are some of the projects that developers built.
A new library of API template schemas make it easy for developers to build a unified GraphQL API starting from a template. Save weeks of development time! No need to build a GraphQL server, understand resolvers, GraphQL stitching etc.
A step-by-step guide to building a custom GraphQL API using StepZen that connects to a real MySQL backend.
StepZen's CEO shares what inspired us to create StepZen and the complex problems we are working to solve for developers.
Two of StepZen's founders explore the benefits that made them decide to build StepZen using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model rather than a container model.