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Microservices and GraphQL are a match made in heaven. However, managing dozens of GraphQL APIs in your applications isn’t necessarily the best experience. Enter GraphQL Federation. Read on to see how Dutch agency Lab Digital used Federation to successfully roll-out projects for their clients.

If you are running a GraphQL API, you probably had to look into authentication and authorization at some point. And because of the dynamic nature of GraphQL, that topic is slightly more complicated than with other technologies. So read on if you want to get a good overview of the various strategies available and when (and when not) to use them.

Getting started with GraphQL is pretty straightforward. There is a lot of tooling that guides you through those initial steps. However, once you’re optimizing your APIs, it can get complicated quickly. Understanding the various phases of a GraphQL request helps figure out where to start looking and what to work on next.