Voyage I: Federation from Day One
Learn how to modularize your GraphQL backend using Apollo Federation.
Voyage I: Federation from Day One is a certifying course
By completing this course, you'll be on your way to earning an Apollo Graph Developer - Professional certification.
Details
- Updated Mar 28, 2025
- 14 lessons
What you'll learn
The architecture of a supergraph (subgraphs and the router) and Apollo Federation 2
Create and publish subgraph schemas
Use the Rover CLI to interact with your supergraph
Configure a locally-running GraphOS Router
Create entities
Use entities between subgraphs
Prerequisites
- JavaScript
Instructors
MS
LH
MM
Michelle Mabuyo, Liz Hennessy, and Megan Sullivan
Lesson List
- Intro to Federation
- Project setup
- Agreeing on a schema
- Building out the subgraphs
- Managed federation & the supergraph
- Publishing the subgraphs with Rover
- How the router resolves data
- Router configuration and Uplink
- Connecting data using entities
- Defining an entity
- Entities and the query plan
- Referencing an entity
- Contributing to an entity
- Putting it all together
This tutorial includes
- videos (63 min total)
- multiple choice questions
- tasks
- fill in the blank activities
- code challenges
