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Latest Apollo Federation posts

October 24, 2023

Announcing official Apollo Federation support for .NET with Hot Chocolate and Federation 2!

Apollo Federation is an open specification for exposing API services as a single GraphQL access layer, known as a supergraph. In a supergraph, you connect and curate your services through smaller, modular graphs called subgraphs. There’s a vibrant ecosystem of community-led frameworks that let you write subgraphs in every common language, bolstered by official Apollo […]

August 9, 2023

From Monolith to Federation

Introduction Many organizations own a Monolith (GraphQL or Non-GraphQL) and migrating away always seems an impossible task, most organizations fall into a seemingly endless amount of effort with very little progress to show for it. At Apollo we have seen many different patterns of migrating away from a monolith. In this blog we will discuss […]

July 31, 2023

Secure your GraphQL Microservices

Federation unlocks superpowers for our queries, enabling us to split up business logic and improve performance with features like @defer. However, these same powers can be abused if placed in the wrong hands, so it’s essential to limit who has access to them. The threats Many coordination features of a federated graph rely on an important […]