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Expanding GraphQL Federation at Netflix with Tejas Shikhare

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The Pros and Cons of Moving to Federation

When do you get big enough that you say, Hey, this is becoming hard to maintain? What are the pros and cons of moving to federation? And why would somebody say, hey, it's worth the extra work we have to do? You don't get all that for free. Yeah, I like how you talked about we had Falcor, we couldn't just jump to GraphQL,. Again, it was almost that strangler pattern. We're going to put in an abstraction layer to help us with the transition rather than a big bang approach.

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