The Wonders of Onboarding: The Ultimate API Management Adventure
summary
Scaling a federated supergraph relies on concrete practices not slogans: Spotify runs an internal linting tool plus a publicly available style guide: basic/intermediate/advanced that documents casing, pagination, nullability, deprecation, unions and complexity tagging; governance is centralized (nicknamed Illuminati) but paired with workshops and embedding an expert in new teams to transfer ownership; schema changes go through PRs or RFCs; automating checks and automated deprecation yields fewer bottlenecks, less schema drift and faster feature delivery.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:27Onboarding challenges and impostor syndrome
- 2:52The quest to scale ownership in Federation
- 6:26Obstacles in scaling Federation
- 10:21Tools to overcome scaling risks
- 15:25Encouraging ownership in new teams
- 17:10Handling schema change proposals
- 19:39The power of linting in governance
- 21:28Key learnings from onboarding tools
- 23:55Avoiding burnout in onboarding roles
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