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Issue 418• Jul 2, 2026

Articles & Videos

Better Together: Cross-Functional Collaboration at the Intersection of Design Systems and GraphQL APIs - Part 1 of 2(opens in new tab)

A deep dive into how coupling design system components with GraphQL schema through collaborative cross-functional workshops can reduce sprawl, ensure consistency, and enhance productivity at both the UI and API layers.

Video: Bad GraphQL takes, volume 1 / Jeff Auriemma(opens in new tab)

Watch Jeff Auriemma reacting to "Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL."

Agents, Federation, and a Community / ChilliCream(opens in new tab)

Notes from GraphQLConf 2026 and Working Group Day at Meta: AI agents meeting GraphQL schemas, the Composite Schema federation standard, and a community building what comes next.

GraphQL Fragments: Let Each Component Own Its Data / Danny Holloran(opens in new tab)

GraphQL fragments let each component declare exactly the fields it needs, eliminating overfetching and the hidden dependencies that make GraphQL codebases painful to refactor. Tagged with javascript, graphql, typescript, react.

Podcast: If context is king, architecture is the castle / Matt DeBergalis, Apollo(opens in new tab)

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

Video: Five reasons GraphQL should be in your stack / Jeff Auriemma(opens in new tab)

GraphQL meets the demands of a modern API stack in the AI era. Here are Jeff's take on the reasons why.

Events

GraphQL Day @ FOST London — Sep 30-Oct 1 (CFP closes July 23rd)(opens in new tab)

GraphQL Day @ FOST — community-organized GraphQL events at Future of Software Technologies conferences worldwide. CFP closes July 23rd!

Webinar: Getting Started with MCP Server (July 8)(opens in new tab)

You've built an MCP server, and now you want a real agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, whatever your users happen to bring) to connect to it securely, on behalf of an actual signed-in user. The moment you try, you run into OAuth. And MCP's take on OAuth has a twist that trips up almost everyone the first time.

GraphQL Day @ FOST BENGALURU — Aug 19-20(opens in new tab)

GraphQL Day @ FOST — community-organized GraphQL events at Future of Software Technologies conferences worldwide. Aug 19-20!

From Zero to Agentic Query in One Afternoon / October 29-30, 2026(opens in new tab)

Join GraphQL Ambassador Željko Kozina for his workshop at J on the Beach: you'll go from an empty project to a working GraphQL API that an LLM agent can discover and query on its own. No prior GraphQL experience required!

Tools & Open Source

Apollo GraphOS: What's new in Schema Proposals(opens in new tab)

Apollo GraphOS Schema Proposals adds diff navigation, inline conflict resolution, clearer revisions, enriched webhooks, and Slack notifications. Built for how platform teams ship schema changes.

Propagate Subgraph Extensions in Hive Router(opens in new tab)

Hive Router can now forward the `extensions` returned by your subgraphs to the final client response, with control over which keys propagate and how values from multiple subgraphs are merged.

Constellation: an open-source GraphQL engine written in Go(opens in new tab)

Constellation is a new open-source GraphQL engine written in Go. Constellation turns a relational database into a role-based GraphQL API, and it's designed to be a near drop-in replacement for Hasura Community Edition. It reads the same metadata, generates a Hasura-compatible schema, and serves the same query, mutation, and subscription surface, including remote schemas and cross-source relationships.

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