Panel - Graph Leadership - Scaling the Graph Across Your Org and Platform
summary
Panelists compare concrete outcomes: NielsenIQ is early adopter, Strava (under 200 engineers) switches REST to GraphQL two years ago and now has most teams contributing, and eMed/Babylon runs Apollo Federation in production for 3+ years and hits issues migrating Fed v1→v2 after 40 subgraphs. They build linting and automation, enforce a schema-first PR workflow, centralize a supergraph governance team (Guardians), wrestle with testing, router ownership and language/framework proliferation, and report migrations and tooling largely succeed but demand ongoing effort.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Graph Leadership
- 3:36Scaling Federated GraphQL Platforms
- 11:50Aligning Teams on Best Practices
- 15:18Learning Moments and Workflow Pitfalls
- 18:05Balancing Speed and Education
- 21:57Pearls of Wisdom and Anti-Patterns
- 27:34Defining Graph Leadership
- 39:22Governance Strategies at Scale
- 42:12Automating Schema Review
- 43:15Closing and Q&A
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