A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

Using GraphQL for service-to-service communication is not necessarily an anti-pattern. In many cases, it's actually turns out to be a great choice!

If you’ve been around GraphQL long enough, you remember the early federation era: a little bit of schema stitching, a little bit of magic, and a lot of “why is this field resolving from three different places?” In 2026, federation looks very different. It’s less of a clever integration trick and more of a platform discipline.

Buffer used to have a public REST API, but closed it back in 2019, and has since been deep in migrating everything internally to GraphQL!

This is a classic retrieval problem, and the usual answer is RAG: embed every coordinate or type, as well as the user’s question, and pull the top matches. It works well for documentation. It works less well for GraphQL, and the reason is specific to how schemas are designed.

Igor Kusakov shared the Apollo Tooling -> GraphQL Codegen migration journey at Yelp

2.5 years of work are finally out! v2 is Houdini's biggest release in the almost 5 years! Rewrote the entire compiler from the ground up using #golang and #sqlite with incredible speed improvements.

It's here: GraphQL Codegen now supports graphql v17. The CLI, and all official plugins and presets. Just update, re-run Codegen, enjoy.

Hive adds `@oneOf` directive support added natively to Hive schema composition. No `@composeDirective` required!

When you put an MCP server in front of an existing API, the natural (lazy xd) first idea is to map every endpoint to a tool. That was my plan too. I recently started building an MCP server for the Open Collective GraphQL API, as part of my Open Source Europe explorations.

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

Apollo Summit 2026 returns to San Francisco, October 6-8, covering governance and security, operating GraphQL at scale, and building and managing AI agents. Secure your $299 early bird pass now!

Join Faisal Waseem, Staff Solutions Architect at Apollo, as he walks through the security architecture of Apollo Router and GraphOS, covering control plane governance, router-level authentication and authorization, demand control, and what it means to govern a GraphQL API in a world where AI agents are active consumers of your data.

Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis was on the Linux Foundation's AAIF podcast talking about GraphQL and AI.