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Hive Gateway now uses Rust query planner

Hive Gateway's query planner has been rewritten in Rust, delivering substantial performance improvements for complex federated queries. The Guild shares benchmarks and migration notes.

Hive Console public GraphQL API

Hive Console now exposes a public GraphQL API, enabling teams to build custom integrations, automate workflows, and extend their schema management pipelines programmatically.

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The Fastest GraphQL Router Is Here

What happens when you rebuild GraphQL router in 2024? We did it in Rust and the performance gains are absolutely crazy. Federation just got a massive upgrade

Apollo Client 4.0: Smaller Bundles + Better TypeScript

Apollo Client 4.0 delivers 20-30% smaller bundles, bulletproof TypeScript with required variables enforcement, intuitive error handling, and modern ESM support. Upgrade in minutes with automated codemods.

Hive Gateway v2: Next-gen Federation Features

We listened to every piece of production feedback from v1 and rebuilt our GraphQL gateway from the ground up. Distributed subscriptions, smart deduplication, and more...

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Apollo’s new CEO

Apollo's new CEO Matt DeBergalis reveals how GraphQL is becoming AI-native & powering the next wave of intelligent apps. Big moves ahead!

GraphQL Summit by Apollo 2025

Oct 6-8 in San Francisco. Indeed, Intuit, and Booking.com reveal production strategies for AI-powered GraphQL at scale.

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Neo4j announces GraphQL for AuraDB

Neo4j has extended it's AuraDB platform to offer GraphQL connectivity for customers using Neo4j Graph Database. It's available from 7th May 2025 for AuraDB Professional and AuraDB Business Critical customers. A trial is also available. Support for additional AuraDB tiers will be forthcoming.

Relay v19.0.0

React 19 support, massive docs upgrade, and game-changing type safety with new fragment alias requirements. Developers, level up!

Vessels API

Unlock 220,000 ships' secrets with a new GraphQL API. Dive deep into ownership, track maritime insights like never before!

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Join the GraphQL Stream Team at GraphQLConf 2025!

Join us at GraphQLConf 2025 in Amsterdam (Sep 7-10) to connect with experts, dive into innovations, and swim for ALS research. Early bird tickets available now!

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eBay backs WunderGraph to BuildOpen Source GraphQL Federation

WunderGraph, as the company is called, today said it has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding to “scale its open source GraphQL federation.” Investors include eBay’s VC arm eBay Ventures, Karma Ventures and Aspenwood Ventures. In addition to investing in the startup, eBay is also serving as a core design partner as WunderGraph has set about building an open source alternative to rival GraphQL company, Apollo.

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Introducing: Headless WordPress without WordPress

Gato GraphQL is a GraphQL server for WordPress that can actually run without WordPress: By executing its standalone PHP component, it works with any PHP-based framework or CMS. As developers are considering their options following Matt Mullenweg's fight with WPEngine, if using this plugin, they can migrate their headless WordPress sites to other platforms, not having to start from scratch.

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Announcing Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0!

Hasura recently announced version 2.0 of their core product, Hasura GraphQL Engine. It is entirely backwards compatible with Hasura 1.x while also introducing fundamental changes inside the GraphQL engine. The new features include options for multiple database connections, support for REST, authorization enhancements, and much more. Read on to find out more about what's new in Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0!

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