Certified to Scale: How N-able Hit 1300% GraphQL Growth in 12 Months
summary
N-able grows GraphQL usage 1300% in 12 months (one subgraph to 14) and expands active developers from 50 to 300 by treating training as infrastructure: Apollo certification made 132 Level 2-certified engineers a gating rule, while automated custom schema checks and a production-first proposal workflow run via asynchronous Lambda monitors prevent bottlenecks. Docs live in Backstage and GitHub Copilot Spaces; enforcement against unapproved changes lets two–three reviewers maintain quality at scale.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00GraphQL journey intro
- 1:48Why GraphQL over REST
- 3:55Supergraph architecture
- 4:37Certification as infrastructure
- 6:44Apollo Level 2 certification
- 8:10Breaking schema process
- 9:13Custom checks and proposals
- 10:38AI schema compliance
- 12:41Custom checks in practice
- 15:50Production safety enforcement
- 16:54Architecture for 1300% growth
- 17:38Customer experience first
- 18:42Simplified GraphQL experience
- 19:2512-month growth numbers
- 20:49Scaling challenges
- 21:53Four scaling takeaways
- 22:59Governance advantage
- 24:02Q&A: Proposal checks
- 24:44Q&A: Non-production features
- 26:30Q&A: Apollo Level 2 enough?
- 27:54Q&A: Customer adoption
- 28:15Closing remarks
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