September 3, 2021

Journey of a GraphQL query

There are a lot of moving parts in GraphQL and it can feel a bit overwhelming to piece them together, especially for beginners! Maybe you’ve gone through a couple of tutorials, written some code, but can’t quite wrap your head around how all these pieces work together. Or maybe you’ve tried out a few GraphQL […]

August 30, 2021

10 Best Practices for Schema Stewardship (Part 2 of 2)

Welcome to part 2 of our blog series exploring the best practices for guiding the development of GraphQL schemas at your company. In part 1, we reviewed the first five best practices, and here we’ll cover the second five. If you’d prefer a lean-back version of all ten, check out a recording of my talk […]

August 20, 2021

Making GraphQL Requests using HTTP Methods

When I first started learning about GraphQL, I thought that I needed a special tool to make GraphQL requests. Luckily, you don’t! While we recommend using Apollo Studio’s Sandbox, since GraphQL runs on top of HTTP, it’s possible to make GraphQL requests using any of the tools you were accustomed to using building out your […]

August 19, 2021

10 Best Practices for Schema Stewardship (Part 1 of 2)

Schemas are at the center of GraphQL’s ability to capture a shared and a unified representation of our data, services, and digital capabilities. Yet, how do we manage a process for agreeing on this representation? How do we ensure it balances the needs of all the parties involved, and leads to the outcomes we seek? […]