GraphQL is a technology to create web APIs that has become quite popular in the past years. In this talk we'll see in detail what GraphQL is, why it exists and why you should use it. We'll also see how we can implement a GraphQL API using Strawberry and Python's type hints. We'll see why type hints make a lot of sense for GraphQL and what kind of issue you might encounter writing GraphQL APIs. By the end of the talk you'll know what GraphQL is, how to implement a basic GraphQL API using Python and what to look out for when working with GraphQL in production.