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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 […]

June 22, 2023

Federated subscriptions in GraphOS: real-time data at scale

Building an API that can serve real-time data to millions of clients is no small challenge. With traditional microservice architectures and REST, building real-time experiences meant excessive polling traffic, over-fetching, and constant coordination across backend and frontend teams to maintain the right endpoints for real-time services. GraphQL subscriptions offer an elegant alternative to REST and […]

January 4, 2023

Add Rust to your GraphQL API with GraphOS

There are many excellent reasons to add Rust to your GraphQL backend—like the incredible performance and correctness that Rust can bring. While Rust is famously good at interoperability with many languages, GraphOS provides an even easier way! There has never been a better time to start oxidizing your API. Check out this video walking through […]