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📣 dbalag

Where do you host your GraphQL APIs?


Hey GraphQL community,

Today I’m asking developers who own GraphQL APIs about where they host their GraphQL APIs/Servers so I can map the overall state of GraphQL in 2020. My question is: where does you your GraphQL API (Apollo, GraphQL-Yoga ...etc) live and why?

        * Cloud
            * AWS serverless (Lambda)
            * AWS instances (EC2)
            * AWS containers (ECS, EKS, ElasticBeanstalk...etc)
            * Firebase Functions
            * GCP Serverless (Cloud Functions)
            * GCP instances (App Engine, GKE, GCE)
            * Azure Equivalents
            * Digital Ocean Droplets
            * 
        * Managed GraphQL services
            * Prisma Cloud
            * AWS Amplify/Appsync
            * Netlify Functions (to AWS Lambda)
        * On-premise internal infrastructure
            * Internal infrastructure
        * Or any other!
As a community, we always talk about GraphQL techniques and GraphQL stacks but we almost never discuss our infrastructure. I want to bring some light to this and see where everyone is developing, their best practices, and any advice you have to offer.

Thanks and may REST, Rest in Peace.

  👤 pauli-exclusion Accepted Answer ✓
My startup uses apollo-server with NodeJS and hosts our entire GraphQL backend on Heroku.

To be honest, we only did this because we are comfortable with NodeJS and Heroku -- we knew little about the alternatives.

If given a choice, I'd rather use something like Prisma that'll make my life 10x easier than the hell that was defining schemas from scratch.