Apollo GraphQL, a provider of GraphQL API technologies, has announced the addition of several new enhancements to Apollo Federation, the company’s distributed GraphQL solution. These improvements include new tools for Apollo Studio, a new VS Code plugin, and a new CLI.
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.
Build a Distributed GraphQL Graph with Apollo Federation
Apollo, one of the leading pioneers in the GraphQL world, recently announced the launch of Apollo Federation. Apollo Federation is an open-source architecture for building a distributed graph. The distributed graph aims to enable access to an entire organization's data with a single GraphQL query without using monolithic architecture.