Platform engineering is becoming an industry standard for organizations adopting cloud-native architectures. While it’s a more common discipline in DevOps communities, companies like Netflix and Wayfair apply it to APIs as well. A well-architected API platform drives developer velocity, composability and reuse, a better security model, and better standardization across any number of clients and services.

Guillaume Scheibel is a Principal Engineer from Apollo GraphQL. Prior to joining, he built the platform that served as the source of truth for APIs across Expedia Group as well as its subsidiaries. In this ebook, Guillaume highlights the requirements for building a scalable API platform and outlines what this could look like at your organization.

This paper is helpful if you are a platform engineer, API architect, or CTO who is:

• Adopting platform engineering and considering how APIs should be incorporated
• Interested in the latest trends in API strategy and management
• Looking for guidance on how to get started with a federated GraphQL architecture