Name: How RetailMeNot Migrated from a Monolith to a Supergraph
Start: 2022-05-18T17:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-18T17:00:20.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open-source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build better software and deliver personalized, omnichannel experiences faster by providing a declarative, graph-based API orchestration platform.

As the DRI for Coinbase’s transition from REST to GraphQL, Stephanie is no stranger to large-scale migrations. At GraphQL Summit 2024, Stephanie shared the next phase of the journey: decomposing Coinbase's GraphQL monolith using Federation. Take away the technical solutions, mindset changes, and best practices Coinbase uses to transform their massive schema into a network of cohesive subgraphs, driving reliability, developer experience, and team autonomy—all while preparing for the next bull run!

Federating Coinbase at Scale: Safely decomposing the monolith while the bulls are running

Indeed set out five years ago to move from bespoke, inconsistent APIs to a unified platform. At GraphQL Summit 2024, Indeed explained how a proof of concept and an API First mandate transformed their culture and led to OneGraph, which provides access to over 200 subgraphs and serves 120B requests per month.

OneGraph: Indeed as a platform

Embarking on a new game or platform journey, it’s easy to imagine the final quest achieved. But where to start, which paths to choose and avoid, and how to skill-up along the way? In this talk from GraphQL Summit 2024, discover how PlayStation expanded their graph beyond the initial business unit use case, tripled their traffic, halved their costs, and built the momentum and results necessary to begin the ultimate quest: GraphQL on your PS Console.

Beyond the Initial Quest: PlayStation's game plan for enterprise-wide graph adoption

In this keynote from GraphQL Summit 2024, Apollo GraphQL’s CTO and Co-Founder, Matt DeBergalis, explores Apollo’s journey in defining a modern API platform with GraphQL and its impact on enterprise development. The keynote delves into key milestones, reveals and demos what’s new in Apollo GraphOS, and showcases how Apollo continues to lead the way in API design and functionality.

The value of your API platform, today and tomorrow

Federated APIs are the future, but securing buy-in from your tech leaders and teams requires more than just an architectural vision. At GraphQL Summit 2024, monday.com shared their step-by-step process for convincing hesitant stakeholders of the benefits and making the adoption of federation so easy it was a no-brainer.

Turning hesitancy into excitement: monday.com's to-do list for convincing your leaders and teams to federate

Error handling is a critical aspect of developing robust GraphQL applications. Misuse or misunderstanding of errors can lead to applications that fail to function correctly, causing frustration for both developers and users. 

In this talk from GraphQL Summit 2024, we explore how to effectively manage errors in GraphQL, ensuring they are wrapped in a useful way, the implementation details are hidden behind them, and common design pitfalls are avoided.

Building Resilient APIs: Techniques for easy and effective error handling

As the financial services arm of Ford Motors, Ford Credit is modernizing its tech stack to simplify the customer’s vehicle financing journey while enhancing the overall ownership experience for its clients. In this talk featured at GraphQL Summit 2024, Ford Credit shares why they chose GraphQL Federation to power their digital modernization efforts. From internal education and managing stakeholders to partnering with internal architecture and security teams, you'll get the inside story of how they are moving from mainframes to a world-class federated API platform.

Modernizing the enterprise: How GraphQL is transforming Ford Credit

Booking.com decomposed their monolith into 120 federated subgraphs handling more than 6B requests-per-day. As you might imagine, adoption at this scale brings challenges in schema governance, compliance, and security. Learn how Booking.com overcame each of these challenges by scaling their schema design and integration processes, building operational pipelines to ensure PCI/PII compliance, leveraged linting, and plans for automated pentesting for more than 1,500 queries and mutations.

Making it easier for everyone: How Booking.com securely decomposed their monolith with GraphQL federation

Companies today need to do more than just manage APIs—they have to orchestrate them to truly connect disparate systems and deliver value to their customers. By design, we have built our tech stacks into a conglomeration of micro-services. As organizations re-platform existing systems, whether for mergers and acquisitions, cloud modernization, or new agentic AI consumers, a robust API strategy is essential to drive new innovations in your business.

Shane Myrick, Chief Architect at Apollo, shares practical insights drawn from Apollo’s work with leading organizations across many industry verticals. In this session, you’ll learn how to join together APIs that connect systems, support the next digital transformation, and give your business a competitive edge in a fast-changing market.

API Orchestration: Moving beyond API management for enterprise transformation

The value proposition of graph-based API orchestration isn't ripping out your existing REST endpoints, but rather augmenting your API architecture by strategically implementing GraphQL as a complementary layer to your current systems and services.

You'll learn:
- How to introduce GraphQL alongside your current REST APIs
- Practical architecture tips for layering APIs
- How teams are utilizing Apollo’s graph-based API orchestration platform to enhance performance, security, and developer collaboration

Designing a Layered API Strategy: Incorporating GraphQL for Scalability and Performance

Wherever your APIs live, you spend countless hours tying them together instead of building the features that matter most. Join Apollo's CTO Matt DeBergalis where he will show you how this can change forever – turning hours of API orchestration work into minutes.

Benefit from faster development time, improved quality, and powerful build & runtime tooling. Whether you’re new to GraphQL or a seasoned expert, learn why it’s the fastest, safest way to orchestrate your APIs.

What's in it for you:

- Cut API integration time by 90%: Watch live as we integrate REST APIs into your graph in minutes, not days. No custom resolver code, no server setup, no unnecessary network hops – just seamless integration in minutes.

- Accelerated performance with enhanced execution quality: From simple to complex API workflows, use the new Router 2.0 with native query planning and get real performance improvements of 3-4x.

- Future-proof your APIs: Get practical patterns you can implement immediately for API orchestration in e-commerce, cloud modernization, and AI use cases. See how to integrate with your cloud providers’ APIs, using AWS with Sigv4 as our example.

- Master the modern API stack: Whether you’re new to GraphQL or an experienced developer, see why companies like Netflix, Walmart, and Expedia are building their future on Apollo’s platform.

Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize how you build and orchestrate APIs. Register now and take your API game to the next level!

New innovations from Apollo

Learn how to integrate platform engineering concepts and processes at the API layer as well as at the domain layer, and get an insider’s view of a successful supergraph in production from veteran platform engineer Guillaume Scheibel and field CTO Dan Boerner.

Whether you are looking to improve your existing strategy or are totally new to Apollo Federation, this session will provide you with a playbook for architecting an API platform that drives developer velocity, composability and reuse.

Evolving Your API Strategy With a Platform Mindset

API-first has created enormous value, but the way APIs connect to UIs is a mess. Direct connections are unworkable, and building backends-for-frontends (BFFs) for every view and product is too slow and too expensive. Join us to learn how Expedia, Starbucks, Indeed and hundreds more address their front-end needs without accumulating BFF tech debt. You’ll discover how they all use a GraphQL layer atop their existing REST endpoints – and why you should consider doing the same.

GraphQL + REST: True BFFs

Get messages in real time from GPT as well as the other humans talking in the group chat, along with their online/offline and rate limit status, through federated subscriptions. On the backend, reliably connect to OpenAI and maintain chat group state without a database through durable functions, where a function can run forever, and we can trust that the function's variables will have the correct data, even if the process running the function is restarted.

AI has Entered the Chat: Building a Multi-party LLM Chatbot with GraphOS's Federated Subscriptions

Cox Automotive is a multi-billion-dollar entity built through acquisitions. Yet, their customers expect all their brand name businesses to work together seamlessly. The challenge for Cox Automotive's platform team was to build an architecture that transforms their many "endpoint silos" into a cohesive, composable API platform, thereby unlocking their APIs as an economic asset for the company. In this talk, Brendan McNichols, Sr. Director of Architecture at Cox Automotive, shares how they convinced their leaders to view this as a product-driven effort instead of technology-driven. This included necessary changes like governance and employing industry-leading technology such as Apollo’s Federated GraphQL.

Cox Automotive's Journey from API Silos to a Unified API Strategy

One of the most significant challenges Platform Architects face is balancing the need to maintain stable systems while preparing for the future. Learn four key characteristics of what makes a resilient API strategy, the difference between environmental and ecological resilience in APIs, and why Architects at over 30% of the Fortune 500 use a distributed composition layer as an integral part of their API strategy to improve collaboration, increase velocity, and complement existing services.

4 Characteristics of a Resilient API Strategy

Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 30% of the increase in demand for APIs will come from artificial intelligence and tools using large language models. API sprawl is a hazardous form of technical debt. It has hard costs from hosting and scaling a fleet of APIs, real security risks and an increased operational burden from the sheer number of APIs that platform engineering teams need to manage. Training AI is expensive and can lead to the risk of leaking sensitive data or polluting a training set, so how can we get our LLMs, and AI-driven experiences the data they need safely and securely?

In this tech talk, Andrew Carlson, Principal Field Architect at Apollo GraphQL, shares use cases for implementing APIs in AI-driven experiences and how organizations can safely adopt AI on a spectrum from low to high trust. He walks through a live demo of a chatbot user interface and how to create meaningful experiences with GraphQL federation.

AI, APIs and GraphQL: A Playbook for Dynamic API Access for AI-Driven Experiences

How did Netflix build an API architecture that scales to over 200M subscribers in 190 countries?  Bruce Wang, who leads API Systems at Netflix, will walk you through Netflix’s 14+ year API journey and lessons learned to address technology, product, and organizational challenges.

What you’ll learn:
• How Netflix designs an API system to meet ever-growing needs, from the early days of streaming to multiple product lines across a global audience
• How Netflix is decomposing its monolith and paving the path for a more composable, flexible architecture across a burgeoning supergraph
• How Netflix is using its Supergraph strategy to overcome organizational and technical challenges and empower teams to build great products through consistent, resilient, contract-focused APIs.

Netflix APIs, An Unexpected Journey

Like many early adopters of GraphQL, RetailMeNot started on a GraphQL monolith. However, their API team found themselves spending most of their time doing code reviews, and they had little time for innovating on their platform. Meanwhile, their frontend teams were often waiting for new capabilities to be added to their graph.

Join Hannah Shin and Kartik Kumar Gujarati from RetailMeNot engineering to learn how they made the switch from their monolith to a federated supergraph and accelerated their frontend development while freeing up their API team to innovate.

What you'll learn:
    • How to migrate from a GraphQL monolith to supergraph safely and incrementally.
    • What gains in both backend and frontend developer productivity RetailMeNot saw after migrating to a supergraph.
    • How to build a graph governance group to establish best practices, educate teams, and improve developer onboarding.

This talk will be great for anyone who is a:
• Principal/Staff Engineer
• Engineering Manager / Director
• Software Architect, Sr/Chief Architect
• Principal/Staff Product Manager
• Sr. Director of Engineering
• VP Engineer
• VP of Product 
• Chief Digital Officer

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