Learn to fine-tune a default Router configuration for optimal performance in this hands-on workshop. Explore Router architecture, instrumentation for scaling, and benchmarking essentials. Discover features like timeout settings, query deduplication, and caching techniques to achieve significant performance gains.

What you'll learn

• An overview of the Router architecture, focusing on a performance point of view
• An overview of Router instrumentation for scaling (spans, samplings)
• What to test for in a benchmark
• Router features that can yield performance gains (timeout, query deduplication, query planner caching, entity caching)

Who this workshop is for

• Platform engineers and users of GraphOS Router.

⚠️ Before the workshop...

If you have any questions or run into any issues with the workshop prep, send us an email at summit@apollographql.com. You can also hop on to the Apollo Discord group in the #summit-workshops channel, or scroll to the end of the page to leave a comment. We're here to help!

You will need the following:

You will also need:

Clone the repo locally

1. Clone the repo

   git clone TODO

   Copy

2. Open it up in your code editor.

3. Run npm install in a terminal.

4. Run npm run dev. This starts up the server in development mode, which means changes you make in your files will automatically restart the server. If all goes well, when you open up http://localhost:4001, you should see Sandbox Explorer! Feel free to play around with the schema if you're curious, but we'll go over it at the workshop!