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I see a lot of negativity in this thread about GraphQL. As someone that's gonna be building a backend API soon, what's your favourite article/guide to build a REST API at scale assuming that GraphQL is overly complicated for our use case? I'm probably going to have to explain the main differences or at least contribute my own opinion so any link would be appreciated.

We mainly use python and we're probably stuck with MSSQL. I've built simple stuff with FastAPI and even Flask before but nothing serious.

[9dev]

The best recommendation I can give is to pick a standard like JSON:API, and stick to it. Not to make the standard wonks happy, but to save your team from discussions on how to structure a given response. Less bike shedding, essentially.