January 30, 2024

How Apollo Manages Swift Packages in a Monorepo with Git Subtrees

The monorepo is a common structure for many software projects, and Apollo iOS is no different. Our project was structured in a single repo containing many different Swift Package Manager (SPM) library targets, along with test code and code only used as part of development. This presents a few problems however, one being that when […]

January 29, 2024

How Intuit Handled their Busiest Time of Year with Apollo Router 

Millions of small to midsize businesses turn to Intuit’s Quickbooks to manage their accounting, payroll, tax, and more. It is overwhelmingly the most popular accounting software on the market today. Intuit serves 100 million individuals and businesses through its leading products TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp.  In the demanding landscape of last year’s tax […]

January 25, 2024

New GraphOS Platform APIs Enable Blue-Green and Canary Deployments

As platforms, teams, and products evolve, we sometimes need new or different ways to deploy our APIs. Strong Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices and recovery strategies are necessary components of any Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).  The recommended GraphOS continuous deployment process uses Apollo Uplink to update the Router […]

January 24, 2024

The Apollo Supergraph Architecture Framework

Building a scalable and effective enterprise supergraph is challenging, and often feels like there are countless numbers of ways to approach the challenges that arise without evidence of efficacy. Companies searching the GraphQL community for recommendations leads to  a lack of consistency across the industry and doing things that may prove to be ineffective, thus […]