# 2017: The year in GraphQL

DevFeed: [2017: The year in GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2017-the-year-in-graphql-23110.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/2017-the-year-in-graphql-124a050d04c6>)

Author: Sashko Stubailo

Published: 2018-01-03T22:12:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>)

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## AI overview

An Apollo team retrospective describes GraphQL's growth in 2017, including adoption by established companies, use in production, specification changes, conferences, and open-source releases.

## Source excerpt

GraphQL was announced and initially open-sourced in 2015, with relatively little fanfare. I think even Lee, Dan, and Nick, the creators of GraphQL, didn't expect that they had created a pivotal technology that would be a global phenomenon just two years later. On the Apollo team, our primary goal is the overall growth of GraphQL, which we see bringing transformative change to thousands of organizations. In 2017, we really saw GraphQL take off.