January 24, 2023

New Apollo Federation spec compliance tools for GraphQL Server maintainers

Apollo Federation is supported by over 20 different subgraph libraries across 12 different programming languages. Have you ever wondered how we capture those compatibility results? In order to ensure those libraries are compatible with the specification, we have a testing repository that verifies compatibility against their reference implementations. While it is great to have a […]

August 3, 2021

Introducing Open Telemetry for Apollo Federation

How do you debug or optimize a request as it travels through all the layers of your stack: from the client, through the Apollo Gateway, through your subgraph services, all the way to your databases? First, you need visibility into what your code is doing during that request, regardless of how that work is distributed […]

(Editor’s note — the concepts in this post are accurate, but some the code samples don’t demonstrate new usage patterns. After reading, consult the graphql-tools docs to see how to use mocking today.) Do you think mocking your backend is always a tedious task? If you do, reading this article will probably change your mind… Mocking is […]