GraphQL for Enterprise Developers

Explore Apollo GraphQL architecture, tooling, federation types, and more. Learn how to design, manage, and optimize GraphQL APIs to improve scalability, flexibility, and performance.

Introduction

• Building with GraphQL at scale
• What you should know
• Setting up your environment

1. Apollo Federation

• Understanding federated architecture
• Importing dependencies
• Creating a federated subgraph
• Challenge: Building a subgraph
• Solution: Building a subgraph

2. Apollo Tooling

• Understanding the Apollo ecosystem
• Installing the Rover CLI
• Setting up GraphOS Studio
• Creating a graph

3. Managed Federation

• Using Rover commands
• Handling subgraph changes
• Publishing a schema
• Generating a template

4. Federation Directives

• Importing schemas
• Sharing types across subgraphs
• Creating an entity type
• Writing entity resolvers
• Challenge: Creating a Cat entity
• Solution: Creating a Cat entity

5. Advanced Apollo Features

• Creating a mutation
• Modeling errors in the schema
• Setting up mocks with GraphOS
• Introducing the defer and stream directives

Conclusion

• Next steps