Offshore development teams have been quietly shifting their approach to API design. What seemed like a foregone conclusion three years ago—that GraphQL was the future—isn't panning out the way people expected. Teams are going back to REST for new projects, or they're layering REST on top of their existing GraphQL systems. It's not that GraphQL failed outright. The real story is that when you're working across multiple time zones with distributed vendors, certain technical choices get much more expensive. And GraphQL's weaknesses become a lot more obvious when your team is spread across continents. The Latency Problem Nobody Talks About GraphQL marketed itself as the solution to over-fetching and under-fetching data. But offshore teams are running into completely different headaches. The main culprit is the N+1 query problem. Queries that look totally fine when you're testing locally turn into performance nightmares at scale.…