April 2019 Summaries

The Apollo platform has announced a new feature called schema validation, which enables teams to practice agile schema development and iteratively evolve their GraphQL API without breaking existing clients. This feature compares proposed schema changes against production API traffic to ensure safety during deployment. The schema validation workflow integrates with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub pull requests, giving teams confidence to make changes while maintaining a lean schema. The feature includes a CLI command, change summary UI, and GitHub status integration, which work together to create a cohesive workflow that ensures compatibility with existing clients.

Join us for Apollo Day in NYC and San Francisco in May to learn best practices from experts at Apollo and hear technical talks from companies like Expedia and NY Times, who are already using GraphQL in production. Attend sessions on implementing practical steps to modernize your apps using GraphQL, including adopting GraphQL on top of existing REST APIs and microservices, creating a GraphQL microservices architecture, managing local and remote state in React apps, implementing a build/test/deploy workflow, and monitoring GraphQL-specific performance and errors. The event will feature hands-on demos, Q&A sessions with Apollo engineers, fireside discussions, and networking opportunities with leading GraphQL experts.