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Issue 408• Mar 16, 2026

Tools & Open Source

Hive App Deployments are generally available(opens in new tab)

Ship an app and its GraphQL operations stick around for months while your schema keeps evolving. Now GA after two years of testing, App Deployments combine persisted documents, per-version observability, and conditional breaking change detection.

The New Apollo Kotlin Normalized Cache(opens in new tab)

Apollo shipped a ground-up rewrite of its Kotlin cache with Relay-style pagination, TTL expiration at the type and field level, partial cache results, and garbage collection built in.

Hive Router Plugin System(opens in new tab)

Hive Router v0.0.40 ships a native Rust plugin system. Implement the RouterPlugin trait, and get hooks across the full request lifecycle: add new features, modify existing behavior, or integrate with external services with full performance and safety of Rust.

Rhys's Executor(opens in new tab)

It's like a BFF, but it's a BF to your agents. You get a TypeScript runtime, a discoverable tool catalog, and a single local place to connect external MCP servers, OpenAPI APIs, and GraphQL APIs.

Articles

How to Build AI Agents Using Your GraphQL Schema(opens in new tab)

Apollo's MCP Server turns your GraphQL schema into a tool catalog that AI agents discover and call through natural language. Blog post covers production patterns including serverless deployment on AWS Lambda, Vercel, and Cloudflare.

Shopify’s journey to faster breadth-first GraphQL execution(opens in new tab)

Shopify discovered their slowest GraphQL queries weren't waiting on databases. They were sluggish in the resolver loop. DFS runs every field resolver per object, and it compounds with nesting. Their answer: Cardinal, a breadth-first executor. 15x faster, 6x less GC pressure, 4s off P50 on large lists.

Events

GraphQL Ramen 🍜 in Austin and other meetups(opens in new tab)

Last issue of GraphQL Weekly already mentioned three meetups happening this week, but the folks from GraphQL Austin insisted that the meetup in Amsterdam and GraphQL Montreal lack ramen. If you're choosing which one to fly to, let your stomach decide.

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