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title: "\"It was portrayed as the REST killer!\""
description: "Budhaditya Bhattacharya (Tyk) on how GraphQL's early positioning hurt it, and how much the tooling has improved."
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date: "2024-12-03"
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# "It was portrayed as the REST killer!"

Budhaditya Bhattacharya (Tyk) on how GraphQL's early positioning hurt it, and how much the tooling has improved.

**Watch:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_G_IfuBFJI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_G_IfuBFJI)

- Duration: 1:00
- Published: 2024-12-03