The Facade Design Pattern is a structural design pattern that provides a simplified interface to a complex subsystem. It hides the complexities of the underlying system by providing a single unified interface, making it easier to interact with the system as a whole.

1. Introduction to Apache Kafka

• Kafka started as a tool for log processing at LinkedIn.
• It has evolved into a versatile distributed event streaming platform.
• Its design utilizes immutable append-only logs with configurable retention policies, making it useful beyond its original purpose.

GraphQL is a query language and runtime designed by Facebook in 2012 and publicly released in 2015. It has gained widespread popularity in recent years, with many companies adopting it as their primary API architecture. It is a query language and runtime that allows clients to request data from servers using a unified interface. One of the reasons for its popularity is its flexibility, which allows developers to implement it in different ways depending on their use cases. In this blog post, we will explore four common GraphQL adoption patterns: client only, backend for frontend, the monolith, and multiple overlapping graphs.