Shopify’s journey to faster breadth-first GraphQL execution

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng at 12 Mar, 12:19 UTC

Conventional GraphQL execution uses depth-first traversal that incurs many hidden costs. We questioned why, rewrote it in a faster breadth-first manner, and saw dramatic results.

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• T1Shopify’s journey to faster breadth-first GraphQL executionStripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng12 Mar, 12:19