Company
Date Published
Author
Dan Boerner
Word count
2116
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text discusses best practices for schema stewardship in GraphQL development. It highlights four organizing models: Siloed, Graph Guild, Central Graph Team, and Hybrid. The Siloed model is the most common, but it can lead to a bottleneck as teams develop their own schemas without coordination. The Graph Guild model improves sharing and learning, while the Central Graph Team model centralizes expertise but creates a dependency on a single team. The Hybrid model partners local experts with a central team, scaling the review process and distributing expertise. The text also covers best practices for scaling schema reviews, adopting a product mindset, and keeping moving forward. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration, iteration, and empathy in achieving strategic outcomes and avoiding the tragedy of the commons.