McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL

<p>Danielle’s path to software engineering began when she was accepted into <a href="https://www.eecs.mit.edu/community-equity/womens-technology-program-for-high-school-students/" target="_blank">MIT’s Women’s Technology Program</a>, an education and mentorship opportunity for high schoolers interested in engineering or computer science. She later earned her CS degree from MIT.</p><p>Danielle’s first role out of college was a junior developer working on <a href="https://guide.meteor.com/apollo.html" target="_blank">Meteor</a>, a full-stack JavaScript framework that was just starting a GraphQL project they called Apollo. She tells the team how Meteor started looking at GraphQL and how that became Apollo.</p><p>If McDonald’s is a <a href="https://restfulapi.net/" target="_blank">REST API</a>, then Chipotle is <a href="https://graphql.org/" target="_blank">GraphQL</a>. Think about it!</p><p>Find Danielle on LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleman/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>This week’s Lifeboat badge goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1256452/torek" target="_blank">torek</a> for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52472435/why-doesnt-git-natively-support-utf-16" target="_blank">Why doesn’t Git natively support UTF-16?</a>.</p>