Expanding GraphQL Federation at Netflix with Tejas Shikhare
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The Challenges of Moving From Monolith to Federated GraphQL
In federated GraphQL, clients can still make the same set of queries. The gateway is responsible for sort of doing the query planning and execution. It checks each field that was requested in your query and see which service it comes from. And then based on that, it builds a query plan, right? So now what we can do is we have this one monolith GraphQL. Let's say we have three different domains within it, like movie, talent, and production domain. This is like our studio ecosystem. Now, let's say I want to pull out the talent domain and make it into its own subgraph service. You can mark those at override. That tells the gateway
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