GraphQL Summit 2025
2025-10-06..2025-10-08
San Francisco, United States
[GraphQL Summit 2022, GraphQL Summit 2023, GraphQL Summit 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, graphql engineers, frontend developers, backend engineers, developer experience engineers, site reliability engineers
topics
federated supergraph management; Apollo Router auto-deploy; MCP server with OAuth; Apollo Client v4 ESM and RxJS; Redis-backed router response caching; AI-assisted schema reviews and docs; server-driven tiles UI; federated subscriptions for streaming; OpenAPI connector generation via LLMs; shadow testing for GraphQL rollouts; shared-type evolution automation; schema-first CMS with federation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building for the agentic future | Matt Debergalis, Jonathan Rainer, Jonathan Wondrusch, Michael Watson | 01h 30m |
Apollo unveils three platform leaps: Apollo MCP Server (GA) with built‑in Oauth and observability for declarative MCP tools, GraphOS Operator for Kubernetes… | ||
| Reintroducing Apollo Client: V4 and Beyond | Jerel Miller | 45m |
250 commits and ~1,200 files change power Apollo Client V4, which ships ESM‑first builds, replaces ZenObservable with RxJS, and trims the main import by about… | ||
| Speed Without Sacrifice: How Wayfair Transforms DevEx with AI and MCP | Rohit Gupta, Bhavana Sree Pallempati | 33m |
Wayfair embeds Apollo MCP and off‑the‑shelf LLMs to build AI schema docs, RAG‑powered schema reviews, and AI schema mocks that actually run in Apollo Studio… | ||
| Fast, Flexible, and Federated: How Wayfair’s Schema-Driven UI Supercharges Experimentation | Ryan Anderson, Jon Campbell | 45m |
Wayfair describes a schema-first CMS called BlockBuilder CMS that mixes server-driven UI with the Apollo federated graph to deliver configurable blocks… | ||
| Delivering Faster Cross-Platform UX Iteration at Delivery Hero with Server-Driven Tiles | Arne Wieding, Oluwapelumi Olaoye | 43m |
Delivery Hero builds a federated GraphQL supergraph with an Apollo router and a dedicated Tile Subgraph that returns render-ready tiles using @requires to pull… | ||
| Stop Reviewing Schemas: How Intuit Made Developers Faster by Automating Governance | Oleks Bidiuk, Alex Lin | 22m |
Intuit replaces slow manual schema reviews with a CI/CD gate, dev portal and IDE plugin that run a custom linter, an AI-powered schema analysis (LLM prompts)… | ||
| Transforming Capital One’s Data Marketplace with Embedded Governance and a Product Mindset | Susan Price, Jake Yesbeck, Gaurav Singh | 27m |
Capital One turns its enterprise graph into a governed platform using Apollo federation, the open‑source router and rover CLI to compose a supergraph that runs… | ||
| Unlocking Performance with Response Caching | Chandrika Srinivasan, Benjamin Coenen | 49m |
Apollo rebuilt response caching inside the Apollo Router using Redis-backed router cache with TTL-based entries, per-subgraph and per-type controls, and a new… | ||
| Optimizing Shared Types: How Intuit Streamlined Schema Evolution in a Federated Graph | Nithya Hariharan, Rama Palaniappan | 41m |
Intuit automates shared-type evolution so teams avoid weeks of coordination: a common-types library plus a build plugin generates a unified schema, a test… | ||
| Powering Indeed’s Agentic Talent Scout with Federated Subscriptions | Jeffrey (Bongo) Russum | 37m |
Indeed replaces Server-Sent Events with Apollo Federated Subscriptions and cuts P95 response time by 22% P95 reduction, streaming rich structured messages from… | ||
| Going All In on REST Connectors at Block: Vibe coding with Goose | Jonathan Wondrusch, Rudra Srivastava | 43m |
Block converts gRPC protos to JSON and uses Goose AI agent plus Apollo Connectors and an Apollo MCP server to auto-generate REST connector subgraphs; a proof… | ||
| Catching Bugs Before They Bite: How Zillow Leverages Shadow Testing for Safer GraphQL Rollouts | Keziah Camille Rezaey | 30m |
Zillow builds a production-grade shadow testing platform called ShadowRunner that mirrors real production GraphQL traffic (45–55B requests per 30 days, 15k–20k… | ||
| AI Digital Twins: From YC Hackathon to Production with Apollo MCP | David Emanuel Sarabia | 45m |
A four‑hour hackathon prototype becomes a production system in a few months, reaching $100K ARR by connecting FHIR and legacy EHR APIs (Epic read/write) via… | ||
| Faster Together: How I Use AI and MCP to Build Better Connectors | Andrew McGivery | 43m |
Builds a working Apollo connector for a public random-user REST API using Claude plus the Apollo MCP tooling, auto-generates schema and mapping, composes and… | ||
| Schema Design in the Age of AI: Pragmatic Patterns to Evolve and Ship Fast | Erik Bylund, Andy Garcia | 47m |
Shows how Apollo MCP server plugs a Graph OS operation collections workflow into LLM agents so new GraphQL operations become tools seconds after saving — no… | ||
| Certified to Scale: How N-able Hit 1300% GraphQL Growth in 12 Months | Dhanik Alkegama | 29m |
N-able grows GraphQL usage 1300% in 12 months (one subgraph to 14) and expands active developers from 50 to 300 by treating training as infrastructure: Apollo… | ||
| How Wiz Is Reimagining Partner Integrations with Apollo MCP | Hen Perez | 45m |
Wiz shows a concrete pipeline: partners get validated GraphQL queries, live schema introspection and step‑by‑step tutorials served through Apollo MCP Server… | ||
| High Stakes, Real Time: How Athenahealth Scaled GraphQL in Clinical Workflows | Colin Barringer | 37m |
Athena uses an ASC workflow as a steel thread to validate GraphQL subscriptions for life‑critical, real‑time updates, wiring React microrends + Apollo Client… | ||
| Panel: AI in the Loop - Left-Shifting Platform DX and Governance | Janice Wilson, Rohit Gupta, Alex Lin, Krithika Prakash, Samuel Vazquez | 46m |
Apollo MCP v1.0 and Agentic power concrete tools: an Intuit IDE plugin runs AI linting and collision detection on schemas during CI to catch semantic… | ||
| Reliable Supergraph management with the Apollo GraphOS Operator & Artifacts | Samaan Ghani, Jonathan Rainer | 35m |
Graph artifacts are OCI containerized, immutable supergraph schemas (SHA256 digests) in public preview that let deployments pin, roll back, and perform… | ||
| Keeping Agents in Check: Apollo MCP Authentication | Nicholas Cioli | 29m |
Demo shows a running Apollo MCP Server and router protecting a GraphQL subgraph backed by the Metropolitan Museum API, validated end to end using WorkOS as the… | ||
| Inside Booking.com’s Router Rollout: Powering Product and Platform at Massive Scale | Christian Ernst | 38m |
Booking.com migrates its GraphQL gateway from Node.js Federation to the Rust Apollo Router and reports handling 12 billion requests/day while cutting gateway… | ||
| Service ownership at scale: new security and observability features | Tim Hingston | 46m |
Announces two usable features: scoped deployment secrets and router-level observability. Subgraph keys use a new Apollo key format (AK prefix, versioned ID… | ||
| Agent-Ready Graphs: Engineering the Foundations for Discoverability, Safety, and QoS | Minghe Huang, Sanver Tarmur, Christian Ernst | 40m |
Booking.com builds an agent-ready federated supergraph with a schema QA pipeline backed by expert review and entity modeling, enforced owner consent for… | ||
| Cash in Your Change: Convert Mutations to AI Insights | Mike Astle, Tony Young | 49m |
Claim: every GraphQL mutation becomes an immutable, auditable event feed that powers analytics and AI. Implementation captures all mutations at the Apollo… | ||
| Agentic UI Exploration | Nik Krimm | 42m |
Explains a working prototype that wires an LLM into existing UI actions: the runtime sends enriched context and workflows to the model, the model returns… | ||
| Fireside Chat with WorkOS CEO: Building the Agentic Future | Smruti Patel, Matt Debergalis, Michael Grinich | 31m |
Claim that MCP is GraphQL and GraphQL’s declarative, type-safe semantics make agents far more reliable and token-efficient; cites a real bug where a Replit… | ||
| Panel: Shipping Agentic Experiences - Going Beyond Pilots to Production | Smruti Patel, Angie Jones, Kewei Qu, Monica Bajaj | 45m |
Panel details why so many agentic projects fail and which concrete fixes scale: an open‑source agent Goose now powers millions of merchants, supports 20 LLM… | ||
| Panel: DX in Enterprise APIs with our new consumers - Agents | Michael Watson, Andrew Qu, Sterling Chin, Tobin South | 45m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: an agent that analyzes DOS spikes and ASNs as a working Vercel firewall observability agent, a data‑science agent built from an… | ||
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