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stepzen.com is the company blog at stepzen.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

19mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link stepzen.com's posts on GraphQL and joining PostgreSQL data declaratively, one as the company's own product page. One commenter questions a technical example in the post.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you like the idea of getting developers out of the backend plumbing and repair business you might want to check out https://stepzen.com (I work there). We agree that APIs and the data sources behind them need to be modernized the way that companies like Vercel and Netlify are modernizing frontends. Our platform is built on top of GraphQL to give developers that one-stop shop for any and all data sources; we'll ke…

    Comment linking /

    on “Next.js 12”
  2. Submitted Join Data from PostgreSQL Declaratively in GraphQL Without Writing SQL as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  3. Since "@dbquery" is attacker controlled, isn't that @exfiltrate? The examples use Int! for params, so it's unclear how the framework/product deals with interpolation. While looking up the docs < https://stepzen.com/docs/custom-graphql-directives/directive... > I noticed that your blog uses "$1" and the docs uses ordered "?" Then, I saw this one < https://stepzen.com/docs/custom-graphql-directives/directive... > and…

    Comment linking /docs/custom-graphql-directives/directives

    on “Join Data from PostgreSQL Declaratively in GraphQL Without Writing SQL”
  4. Submitted Software Needs to Be Operated Decades Longer Than You Write It as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Schema Stitching and Federation: Not the Best Solutions for GraphQL Services as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Unconventional Ways of Using GraphQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Exploring GraphQL Directives in the Wild as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The State of Introspection for REST and GraphQL APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why GraphQL Is Perfect as Data Layer for Microservices as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How Different Are REST and GraphQL After All? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A Visual Guide to GraphiQL and GraphQL Voyager as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted StepZen Instant-On Subgraph Support for Apollo Federation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Easy Attribute-Based Access Control for Any GraphQL API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How Is GraphQL Different from Programming Languages? Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Reading the Medium RSS Feed with GraphQL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted A New Workflow for API Mash-Ups: Postman, StepZen, and the YouTube Data API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Schema Stitching and Federation: Not the Best Solutions for GraphQL Services as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Categorizing GraphQL Directives into Schema or Query Type as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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