Apollo GraphQL

🎓 Weekly Wisdom is back with Edition #9 - Referencing parent fields with $this 🔌 This week, Michelle Mabuyo is walking us through how to use $this in Apollo Connectors to reference fields from a parent object — a powerful way to orchestrate REST calls without writing resolver code. 💡 Use case: Say you're building a schema for bookings, and each booking has a guest review from a separate REST endpoint. With Apollo Connectors, you can pass the booking ID directly into your request using $https://lnkd.in/ef7wEUGp. Example: guestReview @connect(http: { GET: "/guestReview?bookingId={$https://lnkd.in/ehbFzeFY" }) ✨ With just this bit of schema, you’ve orchestrated two REST calls — one for the booking and one for the related guest review — all through configuration. ▶️ Want to go deeper? Check out Lesson 8 of our Odyssey course for a full walkthrough: https://lnkd.in/ek9ehBtZ 💬 Where in your graph could $this simplify things? Let us know in the comments 👇 #GraphQL #Apollo #WeeklyWisdom #Connectors #Odyssey

Our CTO, Matt DeBergalis, recently met with Techstrong.ai on the technical challenges of building AI agents that actually work at scale. The reality: API sprawl is already a problem, and AI agents are about to make it worse. Matt discussed how we're tackling this with enhanced Apollo MCP Server capabilities—including streamable HTTP instances, better tool organization with Collections, and container deployment options. Big thanks to @MichaelVizard for the insightful conversation. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ep9NcTZr #graphql #mcp #apiorchestration

Registration is live for GraphQL Summit! 🚀 Are you a: 📱Web and mobile developer 💻 Platform engineer 🧮 API architect ⌨️ API product manager Don’t miss out on the premier event for GraphQL APIs and learn directly from teams implementing GraphQL for AI agents, multi cloud platforms, and large-scale production environments. Join us and secure your early bird pricing through August 1. Register now: https://lnkd.in/eHH5XfJn

GraphQL finally gets HTTP-style error codes 🎯 Problem: GraphQL errors were just random messages. Hard to group, hard to debug. Extended Error Diagnostics adds: ✅ Standardized error codes ✅ Service identification ✅ Quick filtering in Studio Now you can instantly see if it's a client query issue, service outage, or specific subgraph problem. https://lnkd.in/eBNtHvZx #GraphQL #Debugging #Apollo

The best part about #GraphQLSummit? Stories like Booking.com's. Hearing Sanver walk through their journey from API bottlenecks to 8 billion daily requests wasn't just inspiring - it was practical. Real challenges you might recognize (like supporting 1,000+ simultaneous experiments), real solutions (moving to distributed Federation), and real outcomes (40% faster shipping). These aren't theoretical case studies. They're teams who've probably faced problems similar to yours, figured things out, and are willing to share what they learned. We're bringing that same energy to Summit 2025 this October. More teams pushing GraphQL in interesting directions, more real-world implementations you can learn from, more practical insights you can actually use in your own projects. You'll want to be there. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eFzBVYx9

🚀 The Weekly Wisdom is back! This week, Michelle Mabuyo from the Apollo EDU team walks us through how to use dynamic arguments in Apollo Connectors, a powerful technique for making REST calls from your schema using $args. 💡 Learn how to: - Fetch data using dynamic IDs in your schema - Interpolate $args values for endpoints - Use this pattern for URLs, headers, and query params 💬 Tried this yourself? Drop your experiences in the comments! 🔗 Take the course & level up your Connectors game: https://lnkd.in/gDCrjt6P #connectors #odyssey #GraphQL #ApolloGraphQL #WeeklyWisdom

Our MCP Builder's event in SF last week was so much fun, we're doing it again in July. https://lu.ma/nrqv4k9k Hope to see you there! #graphql #mcp #sfmeetup #developermeetup

AI agents need to retrieve data, modify systems, and take actions in the real world. That requires a robust API orchestration foundation. The same complex logic that coordinates how APIs are called, sequenced, cached, and secured in traditional applications is re-emerging as the crucial bottleneck for agentic AI applications. And of course that's GraphQL's wheelhouse. Today we're announcing several new Apollo enhancements that extend our GraphQL platform to make building MCP tools easy, fast and safe. No GraphQL services required -- start with the APIs you've got, exactly as they come. * Enhanced Apollo MCP Server with streamable HTTP and container deployment * Apollo Connectors with batch support for improved REST API performance   * New Developer and Standard subscription plans with usage-based pricing The rich GraphQL ecosystem means developers can focus on novel AI problems rather than on one-off API composition work. Be ready for whatever the agentic future brings. https://lnkd.in/gf6SzQzv #GraphQL #MCP #APIOrchestration #EnterpriseAI

Why every token matters when building AI agents 🧠 Problem: Traditional REST APIs return fixed response shapes. Your AI agent gets ALL the data whether it needs it or not. GraphQL solution: Query only the fields you need. → Fewer wasted tokens → Lower AI costs → More efficient context window usage With Apollo MCP Server, GraphQL operations become AI tools automatically. No manual setup needed. The workflow: Write GraphQL → Save to Collection → Instant MCP tool Full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/ekjYpGDX #GraphQL #AI #TokenEfficiency

Miss the news of our latest GraphOS release today? Catch up on the ways to get started fast with new subscription plans and features that set you up for today and tomorrow's agentic future. Watch here! ⬇️ And come build with us: https://lnkd.in/egjEwZvH #GraphQL #APIs #APIOrchestration