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A closer look at X’s API: fetching data, linking entities, and solving under-fetching. Oleksii Trekhleb · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 17 min read · 3 days ago — When designing a system’s API, software engineers often evaluate various approaches, such as REST vs RPC vs GraphQL, or hybrid models, to determine the best fit for a specific task or project. These approaches define how data flows between the backend and frontend, as