GraphQL: The hidden Champion of Postman's State of the API 2021
Jens Neuse
Introducing WunderGraph Hub: Rethinking How Teams Build APIs
WunderGraph Hub is our new collaborative platform for designing, evolving, and shipping APIs together. It’s a design-first workspace that brings schema design, mocks, and workflows into one place.
GraphQL shows strong growth, has the largest percentage of users who love it and is the only API Specification amongst future technologies that Developers are Excited about.
| Specification | Use it |
|---|---|
| JSON Schema | 76% |
| Swagger 2.0 | 44% |
| OpenAPI 3.0 | 28% |
| GraphQL | 22.5% |
| Specification | Use it | Use it and love It |
|---|---|---|
| JSON Schema | 77% | 27% |
| Swagger 2.0 | 54% | 16% |
| OpenAPI 3.0 | 39% | 12% |
| GraphQL | 31% | 10% |
| Specification | Growth |
|---|---|
| JSON Schema | +1.3% |
| Swagger 2.0 | +22.7% |
| OpenAPI 3.0 | +39.2% |
| GraphQL | +34.7% |
| Specification | Lovers |
|---|---|
| JSON Schema | 35% |
| Swagger 2.0 | 30% |
| OpenAPI 3.0 | 30% |
| GraphQL | 32% |
| Specification | Excited about |
|---|---|
| Microservices | 47% |
| Kubernetes | 44% |
| Containers | 43% |
| Serverless Architecture | 39% |
| GraphQL | 33% |
| HTTP/2 | 25% |
| Specification | Lovers |
|---|---|
| Microservices | 58% |
| Kubernetes | 50% |
| Containers | 46% |
| Serverless Architecture | 44% |
| GraphQL | 35% |
| HTTP/2 | 33% |
| Specification | Use it | Use it and love It |
|---|---|---|
| JSON Schema | 80% | 30% |
| Swagger 2.0 | 60% | 20% |
| OpenAPI 3.0 | 51% | 20% |
| GraphQL | 44% | 18% |
Jens Neuse
CEO & Co-Founder at WunderGraph
Jens Neuse is the CEO and one of the co-founders of WunderGraph, where he builds scalable API infrastructure with a focus on federation and AI-native workflows. Formerly an engineer at Tyk Technologies, he created graphql-go-tools, now widely used in the open source community. Jens designed the original WunderGraph SDK and led its evolution into Cosmo, an open-source federation platform adopted by global enterprises. He writes about systems design, organizational structure, and how Conway's Law shapes API architecture.
