Scalability has become an overriding concern in the ever-changing world of enterprise software development.

In distributed networking, when a program on one machine (client) executes a program on another machine (server) over a network, it is referred to as a remote procedure call (RPC). RPC is a communication technique that enables synchronous operation in a client-server environment.

GraphQL is a query language for your API, as well as a server-side runtime for executing queries based on the type system you define for your data.