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GraphQL Weekly 412 is out 🥳 🟣 Federated GraphQL Subscriptions in Hive Router - Denis Badurina The Guild Software 🟣 OpenTelemetry Tracing and Prometheus Metrics in Hive Router - Kamil Kisiela The Guild Software 🟣 Apollo GraphQL GraphOS Platform: View Operational Insights Within the Platform API - Nick Marsh 🟣 Meet Hadrian: API security testing framework for GraphQL 🔵 2026 GraphQL Foundation Call For Projects 🔵 Meet the latest 2026 GraphQL Foundation Ambassador Cohort - Jem Gillam 🔵 GraphQL Day at apidays FOST BENGALURU — Aug 19-20 🟡 Why GOV.UK APIs are changing to GraphQL and how you can get involved 🟡 Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to Research. It Needs to Know - Dale Seo (달레) Apollo GraphQL 🟡 Securing GraphQL APIs with Amazon Web Services (AWS) AppSync Lambda Authorizers in .NET 👇 https://lnkd.in/d_2CQSZV

Hive Router, the most performant Federation Router in the ecosystem, powered by Rust, now supports federated GraphQL subscriptions out of the box - Fully Open source! It is the most complete Subscription implementation out there, built by Denis Badurina (creator and maintainer of GraphQL-WS, GraphQL-SSE and GraphQL-HTTP) - Hive Router has built-in support for all protocols: * Server-Sent Events * Incremental Delivery * WebSockets * HTTP Callback This makes experimenting and testing Hive Router as a high-speed drop-in replacement for other routers as straight-forward as possible. This release comes after our latest releases of Hive Router's plugin system and Metrics with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus We are excited to get your feedback in our quest to build the most performant and feature-rich Federation router! https://lnkd.in/dH6Y2afH

With the popularity of GraphQL Federation and the Hive platform, people often forget how popular and common GraphQL-Mesh usage is across the industry (still to this day, the most popular launch we've even had - link in the comments) Here is a great case study by Angel Svirkov from trivago on how they are using GraphQL Mesh to unify their internal systems: ✔️ 15+ data sources accessible through a single GraphQL API ✔️ No upstream changes needed – automatically adapts to REST, databases, GraphQL ✔️ One user interface for important internal operations ✔️ Built-in access controls and audit logging ✔️ Foundation ready for AI agents https://lnkd.in/dph4GdGQ

We had a problem many companies face: too many internal systems, too many ways to access data. Our teams lost hours switching between dashboards with different logins, APIs, and data models. So we built an internal GraphQL gateway that solves these challenges. What changed: ✔️ 15+ data sources accessible through a single GraphQL API ✔️ No upstream changes needed – automatically adapts to REST, databases, GraphQL ✔️ One user interface for important internal operations ✔️ Built-in access controls and audit logging ✔️ Foundation ready for AI agents Six years in, this gateway powers how our account managers, content teams, and operations teams work daily. The surprising part? It became more than infrastructure – it revealed gaps in our systems and connected teams across trivago in unexpected ways. Now we're exploring how AI can use this unified layer to make our teams even more effective. Read the full story by our Full-Stack Engineer Angel Svirkov – how we built it, what we learned, and why GraphQL isn't just for public APIs: https://bit.ly/4uXLbka 🔗

Hemnet (Sweden's largest property platform, serving millions of users), migrated from Apollo Router (Rust) to Hive Gateway (JS) and saw: 1. A reduction of 30% resource usage 2. Gain deep observability into their GraphQL usage 3. Introduce safer schema governance and changes 4. Reduce complexity compared to a typical federated setup 5. Fairer pricing and MIT licensed eco-system A repeated story we see again and again. If you're currently working with GraphQL Federation (or feeling its growing pains), this case study by Lucas Santos might give you a different perspective: https://lnkd.in/dK9bC77j

🤩 Meet Lucas Santos, one of the brilliant minds behind Hemnet’s tech stack. While millions of Swedes were busy searching for their dream homes, Lucas and his team were pulling off a high-stakes "engine swap" at 110 km/h. In this deep dive (link below), Lucas shares the story of our silent migration; moving Hemnet’s entire GraphQL backend to Hive Gateway without a single user noticing. Zero downtime or latency regressions, a glimpse of what pragmatic engineering can do. 🌟 If you’re working on open-source infrastructure at scale, or thinking about GraphQL Federation, this writeup is worth your time. 💚 https://lnkd.in/dwYCZEhK

📣 GraphQL Codegen major version update is coming! This release focuses on Developer Experience for the client use case, with a full overhaul to typescript-operations and client-preset: - 🧹 less generated code: benchmarks show a 59%-93% reduction! - ✅ improved type correctness - 📦 fewer dependencies & simpler setup - 🎯 better defaults out of the box 📚 Migration guide: https://lnkd.in/g46bqPhn 🏗️ Feature branch and alpha releases: https://lnkd.in/gCBiuXe9 🙌 If you try it early, I’d love to hear your feedback.

GraphQL Armor just hit 212,000 weekly downloads on npm 🚀 That's how many developers are now relying on GraphQL Armor, our open source collaborative project with The Guild Software. We didn't expect that when we shipped it. At Escape, we build security tooling for modern stacks. Turns out the internet needed that more than we thought. Now we're hiring engineers to help us build what comes next. What life looks like here: 🍕 We ship and eat pizza. In that order. Usually. 🛰️ Small team, real ownership, no "let me loop in 4 people before you touch that" 🔭 Hard problems at the intersection of security, web apps, and scale If 212k weekly downloads sounds like the kind of thing you want to be part of building in addition to your day to day (not just using it), come talk to us. Link in comments 👇

Today, we are very happy to announce that The Guild Software has acquired Grafbase: https://lnkd.in/di9jFr7m This step is part of our long-term goal to build a stable, long-lasting home for critical GraphQL infrastructure — tools and platforms that teams can depend on for many years, regardless of market shifts or vendor changes. We’ve followed a similar approach in the past with the Stellate acquisition and when we welcomed Inigo GraphQL’s enterprise customers and engineering team into the Hive Platform. Grafbase has been at the forefront of GraphQL Federation, building a high performance Rust Router and a powerful cloud platform behind it. We’re now open sourcing the entire stack. Bringing the best GraphQL Federation Routers and platform under one roof makes Hive Platform a natural first choice for teams using GraphQL today. We always had a good relationship and great respect for the Grafbase team, led by Fredrik Björk. We admired their engineering and valued their competition: open, honest, the kind that pushes both teams to improve. It’s a rare thing to find in a competitor, and I thank them for it. We are happy to welcome Grafbase users to The Guild Software's ecosystem: We’ve already started the work of integrating Grafbase dashboard into Hive Console and Grafbase Router into Hive Router. Grafbase users can safely continue using the Grafbase platform and Grafbase Rust Router. We’ll keep them running till all users have successfully migrated to our integrated platform, at their own pace. We already added support for using Hive Console as the schema registry and analytics platform to Grafbase Router (which now supports all of the GraphQL Routers in the ecosystem), to make the transition as smooth as possible. For most users the transition can be concluded in just two steps: 1. Migrate from Grafbase Dashboard to Hive Console 2. Migrate from Grafbase Router to Hive Router While the latter step is considered to be the more complicated step, we will make sure that every user has enough time and support to complete the migration. The Hive Platform is the best GraphQL Federation Platform out there. For everything GraphQL, we have you covered. Now and for many years to come.

Read about Pantheon’s journey to stable, evolving, and flexible services with a strong internal API that can scale to the demands of a world-class hosting company. Pantheon partnered with Grafbase to design an API solution that brings us improved productivity, scalability, security, and velocity. https://lnkd.in/dcqPsswi