Apollo Federation

Apollo Federation is an alternative to schema stitching for composing distributed GraphQL services. It uses a supergraph approach with subgraph schemas annotated with federation directives, managed through Apollo Studio or self-hosted routers.

API entry from apis.yml

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aid: schema-stitching:apollo-federation
name: Apollo Federation
description: Apollo Federation is an alternative to schema stitching for composing distributed GraphQL
  services. It uses a supergraph approach with subgraph schemas annotated with federation directives,
  managed through Apollo Studio or self-hosted routers.
humanURL: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/
tags:
- API Gateway
- Apollo
- Federation
- GraphQL
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/
- type: GitHub Repository
  url: https://github.com/apollographql/federation