Course lesson

Detect Scaling Issues When Loading Data In a GraphQL API

It's easy enough to use GraphQL to query an array of posts from a database. But if you try to include the author of each post, you can run into scaling issues where the server makes an additional request for each and every post.

Duration
2 min
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Free
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It's easy enough to use GraphQL to query an array of posts from a database. But if you try to include the author of each post, you can run into scaling issues where the server makes an additional request for each and every post.

Using the console, we'll show how to identify when this is happening

And by the end of this series, you'll know how to use data loaders to prevent it.