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The process of transforming an existing RESTful API architecture into a GraphQL API, often involving schema definition, resolver implementation, and data source integration.

GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs that allows clients to request exactly the data they need, providing a complete and understandable description of API data with strong typing and introspection capabilities.

gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework for efficient service-to-service communication, often used in Microservices Architecture, a design pattern for building applications as collections of independently deployable services.

FastAPI is a modern Python web framework for building high-performance APIs with automatic interactive documentation and type safety.

TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding static type definitions and compile-time type checking to help catch errors early in development.

A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides routing, middleware, and HTTP utilities for building web applications and REST APIs.

API rate limiting is a traffic management technique that restricts the number of requests clients can make to an API within specified time windows to prevent abuse and ensure fair resource allocation.

A free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that allows developers to run JavaScript outside web browsers for building servers, web apps, command line tools, and scripts.

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance Python web framework for building REST APIs with automatic interactive documentation and type validation.

A complete backend web development stack combining MongoDB (document database), Express.js (Node.js web framework), and Mongoose (MongoDB object modeling library) for building scalable production-ready web applications and APIs.

Django is a high-level Python web framework that enables rapid development of secure and maintainable web applications with clean, pragmatic design.

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system that stores and retrieves data using SQL for web applications, enterprise systems, and cloud services.

Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine that supports various data structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets.

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language developed by Google that emphasizes simplicity, performance, and built-in concurrency support for building scalable applications.