After 18 months of maintaining a legacy SOAP stack that served 4.2M daily mobile requests with 1.2MB average payloads, we migrated to GraphQL 16.0 and cut payload sizes by 60% overnight—without breaking a single client contract. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ graphql/graphql-js — 20,312 stars, 2,046 forks 📦 graphql — 146,110,490 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (82 points) Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (42 points) This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 (184 points) Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (202 points) Dav2d (366 points) Key Insights GraphQL 16.0’s defer/stream directives reduced time-to-first-byte (TTFB) for complex mobile queries by 42% in our benchmarks. We used graphql/graphql-js 16.0.1 with Apollo Server 4.2.0 for the migration. 60% payload reduction saved $12,400/month in mobile data egress costs for our 4.2M DAU app.…