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StepZen is the developer of a software development platform designed to build an API that combines and connects data across multiple back ends. The company's platform offers data from multiple sources in one query and configurable back-end data sources. StepZen runs an API so the endpoint remains "always on," and developers can avoid writing or maintaining complex procedural logic to orchestrate data across applications. Founded in 2020 by Anant Jhingran, Helen Whelan, and Sridhar Rajagopalan, StepZen is headquartered in San Jose, California.
StepZen is built on the principle that a declarative approach to building GraphQL APIs leads to implementations with fewer lines of code and faster times to deploy. As StepZen runs a user's GraphQL as-a-service, the API is intended to come with built-in performance, cost, and reliability optimizations. This is intended to provide users with universal rules that can be applied across queries, with fault-tolerant code capable of reducing repetition of software patterns, and it enables users to use the platform to code for them. StepZen suggests the platform offers users the following:
- Core problem solved—which makes data available to digital experiences quickly to allow users to deliver a concise, declarative API to customers
- Built time savings—where teams can be more productive by using the GraphQL-as-a-service engine rather than writing the APIs themselves
- Operational savings—StepZen's GraphQL-as-a-service is a maintained, always-on API service offering users a chance to reduce management costs while also receiving protocol translation, key management, access control, error handling, and caching handled for the service and delivered to the user
Through StepZen's platform, users are able to build GraphQL APIs from REST, database, or GraphQL back end relatively quickly. This allows users to generate schemas and resolvers through a pre-built GraphQL schema. Users can deploy quickly, and redeploy as they built. Further, as it is a hosted service, StepZen GraphQL APIs do not require users to build or maintain servers.
