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THE HIDDEN PERFORMANCE COST OF NODEJS AND GRAPHQL

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NodeJS and GraphQL are popular technologies for building web applications but they come with certain scaling and performance tradeoffs to be aware of. GraphQL's modular structure generally leads to code that instantiates excessive promises, which degrades request performance. Benchmarks show a 2-3x latency increase.