DGS Meets Spring GraphQL: The Merger Nobody Asked For, Everyone Needed
· 10 min read
For six years, the Java GraphQL world had two doors. Door One: Netflix DGS, born at a company whose entire product is one giant graph. Door Two: Spring GraphQL, blessed by the Spring team itself. Pick a door, write your code, and pray you never had to switch. Then somebody at Netflix and somebody at VMware had coffee, and the doors got knocked down. Here's what actually happened, what it means for your codebase, and whether you should care.