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GraphQL: Securing and Optimizing APIs

GraphQL powers APIs worldwide. This course will teach you to secure your endpoints and to increase their performance.

Christian Wenz - Pluralsight course - GraphQL: Securing and Optimizing APIs
by Christian Wenz
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GraphQL is the backbone of many APIs, but what about security and performance? In this course, GraphQL: Securing and Optimizing APIs, you’ll learn to make GraphQL APIs faster and more secure. First, you’ll explore common performance pitfalls and how to work around them. Next, you’ll discover GraphQL security risks and how to mitigate them. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage authentication and authorization for GraphQL. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of GraphQL needed to create secure and high-performing services.

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Christian Wenz - Pluralsight course - GraphQL: Securing and Optimizing APIs
Christian Wenz

Christian Wenz is an author, consultant and trainer focusing on web technologies. He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books, is a fixture at international developer conferences since 2001, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET, an ASPInsiders member, and main author of the Zend PHP 5.5 certification.

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