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		dalanmiller on Sept 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Serverless: slower and more expensive > 4. Use GraphQL to pool API requests from the front end. What does this look like in practice? Doesn't this increase response time for the initial requester?

abiro on Sept 24, 2019 [–]

These are usually the read N items from a database type of queries that GraphQL makes trivial to batch together. Will barely increase response time, but will provide a better experience for users on bad connections.

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