GraphQL may have crested the Peak of Inflated Expectations since, but it's reached a broad flat plateau where the weather is mild and the terrain is gentle. There have been laudable successes and no overt failures. Needs were met, products were created, wars were fought, and empires were founded.

Practical step-by-step recipe for building a GraphQL API server in Java, utilizing Spring Boot, Spring for GraphQL, and a relational database. It emphasizes the importance of persistence, flexibility, efficiency, and modernity in the design.

Netflix DGS is a framework for building GraphQL servers with Java or Kotlin. In this article, we set out to build a GraphQL server with the Netflix DGS library in Java and report back on the findings.