Orchestrating Microservices with GraphQL
summary
Intuit is mid‑journey decomposing QuickBooks Online into microservices and uses GraphQL front-end parsing only to accept and validate requests while a custom dependency graph orchestration engine builds transitive dependency closures for fields that live in different services (company, invoices, contacts, accounting). Queries with filters that reference related-object attributes and cascaded mutations are decomposed, parallelized where possible, and executed in order; the team deployed the orchestrator in production after three years of GraphQL use and it works.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Agenda
- 3:03The Problem
- 5:02GraphQL Requests
- 6:43GraphQL Engine
- 9:01Standard Engine
- 10:10Query Parameters
- 11:04Query Arguments
- 15:47Mutations
- 18:18Conclusion
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