Escape the GraphQL Monolith
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Fidelity moves a GraphQL monolith into a federated supergraph using Apollo Federation by carving out a complex passport resolver that touched three domains into its own subgraph, proving domain teams can own resolvers, deploy independently, and add per-subgraph TTL caching and observability links with tracking IDs. Clients keep a single gateway while enabling dynamic queries, reducing overfetching, avoiding merge conflicts, and improving developer velocity once the graph reaches roughly five to seven teams.
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