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

Sharon Gorla, Lead Engineer @ Starbucks, knows what works when crafting domain models. She's been building production GraphQL systems since the early days of the tech, so I was delighted that she found time to come on the channel after her talk at Summit. Thanks Sharon for all you're doing!

What does GraphQL need right now? As maintainer of Apollo Kotlin and member of the GraphQL Technical Steering Committee, I trust Sr Staff Eng ‪@ Apollo, Martin Bonnin's opinion on the matter. Join us for a deep dive on the tech that drives so many modern platforms and applications.

Samuel Vazquez, Principal Engineer at Expedia, has been doing cutting edge work with AI and GraphQL. I got a chance to pull him aside and talk about his work!

Put away your cardboard box of angry scalars and take apart this bad GraphQL take with me! Was this language really invented as a workaround for coordinating with backend developers?

Same service, same objects, different token counts. See how OpenAPI specs stack up against GraphQL schemas when it comes to token counts!

Rigin Oommen, Principal Engineer at Red Hat, knows a thing or two about building a data platform spanning dozens of APIs. It was such a treat to hear how his team built an abstraction that married Salesforce with their federated graph using a thin middleware layer. A very cool case study from your friendly neighborhood GraphQL Ambassador :)

@oneOf inhabitability and empty selection sets are moving to RFC3! Watch the GraphQL Working Group (2026-09-03) for more details!

Alec Aivazis has a compelling vision for the application developer experience and put that into Houdini, "the disappearing GraphQL client." Watch as we dive deep into UI development hot takes, the journey from Relay to Houdini, and why GraphQL isn't just an implementation detail.

The numbers speak for themselves, but I'll yap about them anyway. When your MCP tools call an API, the results are more efficient when that API is GraphQL vs. REST. Don't take my word for it, check out the repo and draw your own conclusions.

HTTP QUERY is the latest and greatest HTTP verb, and it's perfect for GraphQL. Learn more about how GraphQL Over HTTP will support this method in an upcoming specification release!

If you know GraphQL, you should know Robert Balicki. Not only does Robert give the best GraphQLConf talks, he's also been on the Relay team and, more recently, is the creator and maintainer of the Isograph framework. Dive deep into the design principles of Isograph and hear what Robert has to say about GraphQL's missing pieces.

Hi everyone!In this episode, we’re going to explore how Fusion 16.6 makes local development for GraphQL Federation easier. We’ll use Aspire to work on a sing...

Eddy Nguyen maintains one of the most widely-used tools in the GraphQL ecosystem: GraphQL Code Generator. In this video we get into the huge efficiency gains in the latest major version and how to think about generated types alongside newer tools like gql.tada.

Persisted Queries, APQ, Persisted Operations, Trusted Documents, Safelisting, what does it all mean to GraphQL users? I made this video to explore the nuances and hopefully provide folks with a solid understanding of the fundamentals. These features can be extremely impactful to the performance, observability, and security of your production systems, so I hope you find this explainer useful!

Eddy Nguyen's empathy for the user and developer communities is so inspiring! As the maintainer of GraphQL Codegen, Eddy knows what it takes to serve a huge audience. And through his work at SEEK and The Guild, he's seen a lot of the software world. I learned so much from his perspective, and I hope you do, too!

GraphQL isn't for service-to-service? WRONG.

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

HuseyinCodes builds a Book Library API with GQLGen in Go, walking through queries, mutations, and subscriptions in a single session. The tutorial stays grounded: GraphQL serves complex data relationships and self-documenting APIs, not as a wholesale replacement for REST or gRPC. Worth watching if you use Go and want a clear-eyed, hands-on introduction to GQLGen.

Medusa dives into GraphQL introspection security: how attackers extract hidden operations, sensitive fields, and authorization flaws from schema metadata. Practical techniques for bug bounty hunters and pentesters to find high-severity vulnerabilities in production APIs.

Fiona Huang explains how Pinterest uses TypeSpec to define APIs once and generate GraphQL and OpenAPI schemas from a single source of truth.

Eddy Nguyen walks through the process of safely removing GraphQL fields without breaking your clients. A must-watch if you're maintaining a public API or working with multiple consumer teams.

Catch up on everything from GraphQL Summit 2025 with this curated playlist. Features keynotes, technical deep-dives, and community sessions from the Apollo conference.