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

The Meteum Team shares their experience switching from REST to GraphQL for their project. The article describes the advantages and challenges of using GraphQL and provides insights into how GraphQL can be used to improve data retrieval mechanisms.

Christopher discusses how to manage subgraph dependencies in large-scale microservices using Apollo Federation. He explains the @requires and @external directives used to define subgraph dependencies and ensure that each subgraph has access to the required data. If you are working on building complex microservices and are using Apollo Federation, give this a read.

This article addresses the N+1 problem in GraphQL queries and how to solve it using data loaders. Tarun discusses the challenges associated with N+1 queries and how they can impact application performance. He provides a comprehensive overview of data loaders, how they work, and how they can be used to optimize GraphQL queries.