Apollo Schema Federation

GraphQL allows organizations to expose their data in a single graph, instead of as independent endpoints that require clients to be aware of service boundaries and to follow relationships between entities manually. Defining and deploying your data graph in a monolithic schema doesn’t scale however.

As GraphQL adoption within an organization grows, schema design shifts from being a single team responsibility to being an organization-wide concern. In this talk, I will introduce Apollo schema federation which is the evolution of schema stitching.