Apollo GraphOS

The Apollo GraphOS is a self-service GraphQL API platform designed to deliver a seamless and scalable experience for enterprises. According to the vendor, this solution caters to businesses of all sizes, with a particular focus on software development, IT services, e-commerce, media and entertainment, and financial services industries. By providing a principled architecture for GraphQL at scale, Apollo GraphOS aims to simplify API complexity, streamline collaboration, and enable faster development and iteration. With advanced governance features and serverless capabilities, this platform aims to empower organizations to operate and secure their GraphQL platform with ease.

Key Features

Principled Architecture for GraphQL: According to the vendor, the architecture of Apollo GraphOS is designed to accommodate any number of clients or services, ensuring scalability and flexibility.

Reduced API Complexity: The vendor states that Apollo GraphOS simplifies API architecture by adding a GraphQL layer, providing modularity and composability for service teams while maintaining simplicity for client teams.

Collaborative Workflows: According to the vendor, GraphOS Studio offers a centralized graph registry and standardized workflows, enabling service teams to collaborate effectively in building a unified supergraph.

Centralized Collaboration: The vendor claims that API development can be streamlined by tracking GraphQL services in a central registry and maintaining schema variants aligned with production and staging environments.

Automated Service Composition: The vendor states that Apollo GraphOS allows for seamless composition and publishing of multiple GraphQL services as a unified, self-service API platform powered by a static artifact.

Accelerated Development and Iteration: According to the vendor, Apollo GraphOS aims to make graph development and consumption effortless with features like one-click query building, shared operation collections, and automated testing scripts.

Confident Shipping: The vendor claims that Apollo GraphOS helps prevent breaking API changes by ensuring that updated schemas continue to support historical client operations, allowing for confident shipping.

Usage Observation: According to the vendor, Apollo GraphOS provides the ability to track usage metrics at the field, client, and operation levels, enabling informed decisions on deprecating out-of-date services without causing breaking changes.

Advanced Governance: The vendor states that Apollo GraphOS offers role-based access control to lock schemas and control who can make, approve, and publish schema changes for different environments.

Scalable GraphQL Platform: According to the vendor, organizations can customize, deploy, observe, and scale a supergraph across any number of clients and services using the GraphOS Runtime Plane, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.