Knotel Experiences Success and Challenges Implementing Microservices using Apollo Federation

During Day 1 of the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco, Victor Quinn, Head of Engineering at Knotel reported in an exclusive interview with ProgrammableWeb that his company has achieved success and also had challenges using Apollo Federation to transform the way company uses GraphQL.

One key success is that Apollo Federation allows Knotel to use the Squad Strategy to organize the way its technical staff works.

Apollo Announces Managed Federation

Just a few weeks after Apollo announced the release of Apollo Federation, the company has added managed federation to GraphQL across an organization. Managed federation provides analytics, CI, and collaboration to help teams work efficiency on distributed graphs. Additionally, teams can now leverage a single data graph for the entire organization.