Lots of GraphQL talk on the channel this week!
Is MCP better with GraphQL? I think so. Here are six reasons why.
Robert Balicki on Isograph, agent orchestration, GraphQL, and more Robert Balicki is prolific. I loved hearing his deep dive on fragments, the right way to build full-stack apps with Isograph, and how to orchestrate agents with his Barnum framework.
HTTP QUERY is coming to GraphQL GraphQL-Over-HTTP has a new open PR that specifies how to use the new QUERY verb in HTTP for GraphQL queries. That's good news!
Rolling your own GraphQL client? Probably a bad idea. I've seen folks try to do it, and the benefits are almost always outweighed by the costs.
source & further reading
jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub — original article
A2A: Adversary to Adversary?
Future of staff-level engineering, MCP auth, CLI dev, new GraphQL tagline, governance by default, API vs. Tool design
GraphQL Codegen, stateless MCP, prompt-as-policy, persisted queries