The Diminishing API Layer
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Argument says the API layer is shrinking as serverless and backends as a service tie data and logic together, with Rails scaffolding and BaaS like firebase hasura slash graphql dgraph and Fauna generating nested CRUD and reducing 70% boilerplate into configuration that deploys in seconds. Examples include generated CRUD, nested writes that work end to end, and GraphQL directives such as @auth directive, @length and @lambda for authorization validation and custom resolver code that execute at query time.
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