Name: Introducing a native query planner in Apollo Router
Start: 2024-11-08T08:00:00+00:00

Introducing a native query planner in Apollo Router

Iryna Shestak

Apollo MCP Server started with a simple ask. When MCP first came out, customers wanted their agents to reach their own GraphQL APIs, so we built a server that turns GraphQL operations into MCP tools, with no hand-written tool per endpoint.

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