Keynote: The State of Distributed GraphQL
summary
An open, vendor-neutral Federation spec under the Graph Foundation aims for interoperable distributed GraphQL and already has RFCs and prototypes; engineers from Apollo, ChilliCream, The Guild, IBM and Hasura work in the composite schema working group meeting weekly. The spec borrows from Apollo Federation and GraphQL Fusion and adds explicit lookups, a oneoff directive with finder input types (structural input unions), an is directive plus field-selection-map syntax, compile-time data-requirement validation, and an incremental subgraph-by-subgraph migration path.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Graph Federation
- 1:03Composite Schema Working Group
- 2:49New Specification Approach
- 5:43Lookup and Oneoff Directives
- 7:29Data Requirements in Schema
- 9:17Current Spec Status
- 10:04Migration Path Forward
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