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.