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Grafbase
Company blog · grafbase.com/blogprogrammingweb
Grafbase is the company blog at grafbase.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Grafbase – Instant Serverless GraphQL Back Ends on Cloudflare DurableObject”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on using Rust for tokenising and parsing, and on GraphQL live queries. The comments only name these topics and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Grafbase provides secure, self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade GraphQL API management.
Most-linked posts?
- Grafbase – Instant Serverless GraphQL Back Ends on Cloudflare DurableObject3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-02
- Simplify building realtime applications with GraphQL Live Queries3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-16
- Implementing serverless full-text search in Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Grafbase ( https://grafbase.com ) | Rust, Serverless, GraphQL | Remote | Full-time Grafbase is a data platform for developers. Deploy instant serverless GraphQL backends with a top notch DX. We are well funded and backed by leaders in developer tools. We recently launched our Private Beta and are working towards a Public Beta launch later this year. If you're passionate about Developer Experience, GraphQL, Serverles…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Grafbase: Instant serverless GraphQL backends as a story · 39 points
HN discussionGrafbase ( https://grafbase.com ) | Rust, Serverless, GraphQL, DX | Remote | Full-time Grafbase is a data platform for developers. Deploy globally fast GraphQL APIs with a top-notch developer experience. We are well funded and backed by leaders in developer tools. We recently launched our Private Beta and are working towards a Public Beta launch later this year. If you're passionate about Developer Experience, Graph…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Grafbase announces $7.3M to build the data platform of the future as a story · 17 points
HN discussionGrafbase ( https://grafbase.com ) | Rust, WASM, Serverless, GraphQL | Remote | Open-source | Full-time Grafbase is a data platform for developers that enables you to deploy globally fast applications in seconds. If you're passionate about serverless and edge computing you will feel at home at Grafbase. Come join the founding team! You can see our open positions here: https://careers.grafbase.com/#section-jobs We are…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted Grafbase is now in public beta as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFredrik here, founder of Grafbase. Grafbase is an edge-first data platform for developers. It will allow you to deploy globally fast backends using a Git workflow. We're also betting big on server-side WASM. We're launching the private beta in a few months. Sign up for early access if you're interested in building this with us: https://grafbase.com
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on “Pay attention to WebAssembly”Submitted A 21,565X performance improvement in linting GraphQL as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGrafbase ( https://grafbase.com ) | Rust, WebAssembly, DynamoDB, Serverless, GraphQL | Remote | Full-time Our mission is to enable developers to deploy globally fast backend apps in seconds. If you're passionate about Rust, GraphQL, Serverless, DynamoDB and Edge Computing you will feel right at home. Come join the founding team! Backend Engineer: https://grafbase.com/careers/backend-engineer You can see our open pos…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted How to build your own realtime analytics dashboards as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> If you don't mind me asking, which companies? Or how do you get into this industry within an industry? I'd really love to work on some programming language implementations professionally (although maybe that's just because I've built them non-professionally until now), You do not need to write programming languages to need parsers and lexers. My last company was Prisma ( https://prisma.io ) where we had our own sc…
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on “Rust for tokenising and parsing”Submitted Simplify building realtime applications with GraphQL Live Queries as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFounder of Grafbase here. Glad to hear you like our documentation as it's something we're working hard to improve daily. What integrations would you like to see? Our public roadmap is available here where you can upvote missing features: https://grafbase.com/roadmap
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on “Grafbase is now in public beta”Submitted Pathfinder for GraphQL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIs there an official production-ready solution for getting the 'Live Query' unofficial feature working? (I'm not talking about 'subscription') I've found some [1] [2] [3], but they're either archived or not ready for production. I want to register from my clients (frontend app) for specific (can be complex) queries and get updates on changes. [1] https://github.com/n1ru4l/graphql-live-query [2] https://www.graphile.…
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on “GraphQL Live Query, How To?”Submitted Self-Host Grafbase as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we built the Grafbase local development experience in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nexus: Securing MCP Tool Sprawl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We built an edge-optimized Postgres connector in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GraphQL Live Queries with live directive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grafbase Extensions Now Power Federated GraphQL APIs with Postgres as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe code with your GraphQL API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking Grafbase vs. Apollo vs. Cosmo vs. Mesh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Grafbase – Introducing Federated Graphs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Grafbase Postgres Connector as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing serverless full-text search in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Type-Safe GraphQL Schemas with TypeScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Realtime Apps with Server-Sent Events and GraphQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serverless Search with GraphQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Pipedream to Add Data from Google Sheets to Grafbase as a story · 2 points
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