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Tuesday, May 19
 

10:30am PDT

Safely Merging Subgraphs in a Distributed World - Clarice Abreu & Rodrigo Jesus, Brex
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Grand Ballroom I
In the rush to "break the monolith" through GraphQL Federation, organizations can go too far and end up with an explosion of subgraphs. At scale, this can lead to a different kind of pain: high operational overhead, reliability issues, and ultimately, a degraded graph quality. This session explores how to pivot from "splitting" to "merging" without impacting the customer.
The presentation will dive into the workflow developed by Brex to consolidate federated subgraphs safely and reliably, covering:
•⁠ ⁠The Why: Identifying the tipping point where service fragmentation hurts more than it helps.
•⁠ ⁠The Strategy: A zero-downtime workflow for merging services covering code migration, schema composition and traffic shifting
•⁠ ⁠Reliability: How to ensure schema integrity and 0 customer impact during the transition.
•⁠ ⁠Outcomes: How the consolidation improved our graph design and simplified our overall architecture.

Attendees will leave with a framework for evaluating when federation boundaries are hurting more than helping and a roadmap for executing a "subgraph smash" in their own federated infrastructure.
Speakers
avatar for Clarice Abreu

Clarice Abreu

Senior Software Engineer, Brex
Clarice Abreu leads the roadmap and strategy for the Brex's GraphQL platform. She drives initiatives to improve schema quality, schema validation and observability, helping teams build and evolve a large-scale federated GraphQL architecture.
avatar for Rodrigo Jesus

Rodrigo Jesus

Senior Software Engineer, Brex
Rodrigo Jesus is a Senior Software Engineer at Brex's Application Infrastructure team focused on taming complexity in large distributed systems. He currently leads service smashing and domain consolidation efforts that reduce fragmentation, lower operational overhead, and improve... Read More →
Safely Merging Subgraphs in a Distributed World pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Federation + Distributed Systems

10:30am PDT

Sponsored Session: Federation, Reversed: A Consumer-First Future with Fission - David Stutt, Wundergraph
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
GraphQL Federation traditionally takes a bottom-up approach: individual service schemas are defined first, and the final federated API emerges from the federation algorithm. However, GraphQL's strength is enabling APIs that are designed around what consumers actually need. A bottom-up model can make it harder to intentionally design the federated API surface. In this talk we introduce Fission, a new federation algorithm that enables a consumer-first, design-driven approach to federated GraphQL APIs. We'll show how Fission lets teams start with API design and derive the services therefrom—flipping the traditional federation paradigm on its head. And best yet: we'll explain using cake.
Speakers
avatar for David Stutt

David Stutt

Senior Founding Software Engineer, Wundergraph
David is one of the four founding engineers at WunderGraph who collectively built the software foundations of the company. David's career began in the finance sector of software engineering before moving exclusively to API management in 2022. From that point, David started his deep-dive... Read More →
FederationReversed pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  Federation + Distributed Systems

10:30am PDT

React Server Components Vs. GraphQL - Jordan Eldredge, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Boardroom
React Server Components (RSC) and GraphQL have considerable overlap in the problems they seek to solve. This makes them competitors in some scenarios.

In this talk we’ll recount the origins of RSCs at Meta as a prototype within the Relay GraphQL client, discuss how to choose between the two technologies, and end with an exploration of architectures in which they both might reasonably coexist moving forward.
Speakers
avatar for Jordan Eldredge

Jordan Eldredge

Software Engieer, Meta
Jordan has spent the last nine years working at Meta. He currently works on Relay, a sophisticated GraphQL client for JavaScript that powers most of Meta's JavaScript applications.
GraphQL vs. RSC Jordan Eldredge pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Boardroom
  Servers

11:05am PDT

Lightning Talk: The 40,000-field Query: Optimizations for Gigantic High-QPS Operations - Gary Zeng, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:15am PDT
Grand Ballroom I
Parsing a GraphQL query generally has negligible cost. But what happens your front page query has millions of QPS, 10s of thousands of fields, and there are hundreds of versions of the query? At Meta, we've found that parsing becomes a significant bottle neck under these constraints.

In this talk, we dive into server-side optimizations we built to handle persisted documents beyond simple LRU caches. We will cover:
- Lazy fragment parsing. We delay parsing a fragment until the executor encounters a spread that matches the fragment's type, using offset maps to jump through the document text.
- Traffic based caching. We cache pre-parsed structures taking into consideration CPU savings and memory cost.
- Fragment inlining to reduce overhead in the CollectFields step.

Attendees leave with deep understanding of performance considerations of GraphQL execution engines. I hope other GraphQL server implementations can consider adopting similar strategies to better serve a larger variety of traffic patterns.
Speakers
avatar for Gary Zeng

Gary Zeng

Software Engineer, GraphQL Platform, Meta
Gary is a Software Engineer working on Meta's GraphQL engine powering one of the worlds largest schemas. He focuses the balance between language design and system reliability. In the physical world, Gary has hosted over 1000 hours of Dungeons and Dragons.
GraphQL Conf Gary Zeng pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:15am PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Production Insights - Huge Scale

11:05am PDT

Big Graphs, Tiny Contexts: Dev Tools for Agents - Stephen Spalding & Kavitha Srinivasan, Netflix
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:30am PDT
Boardroom
How do you make one of the world's largest federated graphs accessible to token-constrained LLM minions?

With hundreds of teams contributing to or consuming GraphQL APIs at Netflix, good tools are critical. Today, our GraphQL platform supports engineers across the entire dev lifecycle. However, the nature of developer tooling is rapidly changing.

It’s no longer enough to have a pretty UI if LLMs can’t access it—”agent-friendly” is now table stakes.

In this talk, we'll discuss how our tools have adapted to expose agent-friendly interfaces, allowing agents to seamlessly interact with and utilize them for exploring the graph, building queries, designing schemas, and more.

Finally, how can we leverage the power of AI within the tools themselves? We’ll discuss techniques for superpowering GraphQL tooling via focussed agents with guardrails and feedback loops, increasing accuracy and trust.
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Spalding

Stephen Spalding

Engineer, Netflix
Stephen is a member of the Edge API team at Netflix and a member of the GraphQL TSC. His team develops and operates the Netflix API platform. This is the nexus point where hundreds of microservices are aggregated into a single API that delivers the Netflix experience for the hundreds... Read More →
avatar for Kavitha Srinivasan

Kavitha Srinivasan

Staff Software Engineer, Netflix Inc.
Kavitha Srinivasan is a member of the GraphQL platform team at Netflix that operates one of the largest federated graphs and provides developer tools. She has also been a core contributor and maintainer of the Domain Graph Services framework, an open source framework for building... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:30am PDT
Boardroom
  AI and LLMs

11:05am PDT

Service-to-service GraphQL: The New Sweet Spot! - Mark Larah, Yelp
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:30am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
Using GraphQL for service-to-service communication has historically been....frowned upon. Certainly, in isolation, there are compelling alternatives (gRPC, thrift, good ol' REST).

But in the age of LLMs and SDUI (Server Driven UI), there's lot of data whizzing around microservices. Does GraphQL fit this use case? I'll argue...yes!

You could define your data models with a combination of REST, gRPC, GraphQL; each layer gets a different transport protocol. Or we could consolidate on GraphQL.

This talk lays out why and when this makes sense, and what patterns are helpful to achieve this.

(ATTN: CFP reviewers -- fwiw the title is referencing https://productionreadygraphql.com/blog/2020-05-14-sweetspot)
Speakers
avatar for Mark Larah

Mark Larah

Group Tech Lead, Yelp

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:05am - 11:30am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  Servers

11:40am PDT

From Query to Conversation: GraphQL as an AI Interface Layer - Hugh Nguyen & Adam Conrad, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
How do you teach AI to navigate GraphQL schemas with thousands of fields? At Meta, we built an AI system that dynamically discovers and loads subschemas on-demand, enabling natural language interactions with complex enterprise APIs.

This talk shares hard-won lessons from building production AI that performs real-time schema exploration, manages dynamic subschema composition, and generates sophisticated GraphQL operations at Meta's scale.

Key Topics:
- Dynamic schema discovery from user intent
- On-demand subschema loading architecture (@require_graphql_subschemas directive)
- Teaching LLMs GraphQL type relationships and dependencies
- Performance optimizations for real-time schema introspection
- What failed and why certain approaches don't scale

Lessons from Production:
- Schema design principles that work better with AI
Security considerations for AI-driven schema access
- Operational challenges and monitoring strategies
- Attendees leave with battle-tested patterns for conversational GraphQL systems, specific techniques for dynamic schema loading, and honest insights about what didn't work along the way.
Speakers
avatar for Hugh Nguyen

Hugh Nguyen

Software Engineer, Meta
Hugh Nguyen is a Software Engineer working on Metamate team at Meta, which builds AI powered products and platforms. Hugh is working on enabling AI agents to access all internal knowledge through GraphQL, a novel approach to rapidly expand AI agent's capabilities.
avatar for Adam Conrad

Adam Conrad

Engineering Manager, Meta
Engineering Manager for integrating GraphQL in our mobile applications at Meta. Previously focused on React at Meta.
Slides PDF (1) pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  AI and LLMs

11:40am PDT

Shopify's Breadth-First Bet: Rethinking GraphQL Execution - Greg MacWilliam, Shopify
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Boardroom
Pretty much every major GraphQL execution implementation follows the same pattern: depth-first traversal. But the spec doesn’t require this. At Shopify, we challenged that status quo and rewrote GraphQL execution to run breadth-first.

Here’s how it works: instead of running a field resolver repeatedly across each object in a list during its depth pass, we execute each field resolver only once per selection with a complete breadth of objects spanning the response. The napkin math is compelling—5 fields resolved across a list of 100 objects running depth-first will produce 500 resolver calls + lazy promises, while running breadth-first will only produce 5. We’ve seen dramatic results with some large list queries shaving many seconds off their end-to-end response times.

This talk will cover:

* Why depth-first has hidden costs that scale linearly.
* How breadth-first inverts the cost model.
* Why dataloaders are a hack.
* The trade-offs we accepted.
* How we're incrementally migrating to breadth execution.

If you've ever been concerned that CPU-bound GraphQL performance doesn't scale well, this talk offers a new perspective—and proof that challenging conventions can pay off.
Speakers
avatar for Greg MacWilliam

Greg MacWilliam

Staff Software Engineer, Shopify
Greg is an API Foundations engineer at Shopify focused on GraphQL scalability and performance. He’s an open-source contributor on several GraphQL projects, and author of The Schema Stitching Handbook. Coder. Dad. Likes dogs, juggles fire.
breadth first execution pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Boardroom
  Performance

12:15pm PDT

Sponsored Session: Closing the Loop: How GraphQL Gives Coding Agents Eyes on What Actually Matters - Michael Staib, Chillicream
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
Coding agents are reshaping how we build software. Implementing features, refactoring systems, and shipping changes at a pace unthinkable 6 months ago. But to be successful with agents you need the right feedback loop. One that guides your agent to success, not into the spiral of death.

Ask Claude to add a review system to your product API. Without knowing what's in use, it might reshape your types, move fields, and break your deployed clients because it is missing a crucial feedback loop of what's in use in your clients.

GraphQL changes this. Every client operation explicitly declares the exact fields and types it needs. That gives you something rare: field-level usage data across your entire consumer base. Not endpoint hits, but actual demand, broken down to the individual field.

When coding agents can access this data, they stop guessing. Evolve your schema grounded in reality, not assumptions.

This talk shows how GraphQL's inherent usage visibility and the rise of coding agents create a feedback loop that didn't exist before. And why it matters for anyone building APIs that need to evolve fast.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Staib

Michael Staib

CEO, ChilliCream
Michael is a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering Committee, a Microsoft MVP, and Co-Founder and CEO of ChilliCream. He is the creator of Hot Chocolate, a widely used GraphQL server and client platform for .NET, and one of the authors of the Composite Schema specification. Michael... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  AI and LLMs

12:15pm PDT

An Alternative To JSON Responses: Argo in WhatsApp - Kevin Gorham, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Boardroom
Optimizing wire size is in WhatsApp's DNA. In the early days, we transformed verbose XML into a compact binary protocol (WAP) that helped us serve users worldwide on constrained networks. Now, as we migrate to GraphQL, we faced a new challenge: JSON responses were 30% larger than WAP-encoded equivalents. This talk tells the story of how we solved that problem—by leveraging GraphQL's type system to outperform not just JSON, but WAP and protobufs too. We'll share the technical approach (implementing Argo), the results (27-50% smaller responses), and why this represents the next evolution in efficient data transfer for Meta's apps.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Gorham

Kevin Gorham

Software Engineer, Meta
Shepherding client-side GraphQL at WhatsApp.
GraphQLConf 2026 — Argo in WhatsApp v4 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Boardroom
  Performance

12:15pm PDT

The Internal Lens: GraphQL Gateways From a Different Axis - Angel Svirkov, trivago
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
GraphQL is often framed around multiple clients, external consumers, and solving over/under-fetching. But what if you have one client, fragmented internal APIs, and colleagues as your consumers? This talk explores that different axis—and why GraphQL still matters.

At trivago, we built a second GraphQL Gateway to unify internal services. What started as admin tooling became something more: a lens that surfaced hidden system relationships, a catalyst for cross-team collaboration, and now a foundation for AI-assisted tooling enriched with human-written business context.

This session shares honest lessons from six years of running an internal-facing gateway. You'll hear how we unified services without imposing upstream requirements, fostered collaboration across previously siloed teams, and designed audit logging around user intent—not just technical calls. Whether or not this specific approach fits your context, you'll leave with a broader perspective: there's more to GraphQL than its typical framing suggests.
Speakers
avatar for Angel Svirkov

Angel Svirkov

Software Engineer, trivago
Angel Svirkov is a Software Engineer at trivago, Germany. Over 10 years, he has bridged product needs and engineering realities—owning problems end-to-end from discovery through architecture, implementation, rollout, and operations. For the past six years, this work has centered... Read More →
The Internal Lens pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Production Insights - Regular Scale

2:10pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Schema Composition Without Federation - Matt Mahoney, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:20pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
In a world where context is limited, what do we need from GraphQL to build composable, type safe products?
Speakers
avatar for Matt Mahoney

Matt Mahoney

Software Engineer, Meta
I work on Meta's Mobile GraphQL team.
Schema Composition Without Federation pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:20pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Clients

2:10pm PDT

Lower Latency With Streaming GraphQL - Rob Richard, 1stDibs
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:35pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
Learn how to lower latency in your applications by streaming your GraphQL responses using the @defer and @stream directives. Learn the trade-offs of when to use these new directives and how they differ from GraphQL Subscriptions.

@defer and @stream have been in development for some time now and have gone through many iterations. Learn about the motivation behind these changes and how they will lead to scalable GraphQL servers and efficient clients.
Speakers
avatar for Rob Richard

Rob Richard

Senior Director, Front-End Engineering, 1stDibs
Rob is a front-end engineer at 1stDibs, an online marketplace for extraordinary design. He is also a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering committee, where he has been championing the @defer & @stream spec proposal.
Defer and Stream GraphQL Conf 2026 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:35pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  Performance

2:25pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Making GraphQL Fun for the Backend Too - Stephen Haberman, Homebound
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:25pm - 2:35pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
GraphQL is a technology well-loved by frontend engineers, but often leaves backend engineers struggling with boilerplate code and N+1 performance issues. This talk introduces Joist, a "GraphQL-first" TypeScript ORM that uses codegen, resolver scaffolding, and deep dataloader integration to bring Rails-level productivity to Homebound's 500+ table GraphQL/Postgres majestic monolith.
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Haberman

Stephen Haberman

Software Engineer, Homebound
With two decades of experience, Stephen is a seasoned software engineer known for delivering robust systems that drive business value, while also being a passionate builder at heart, crafting codebases that developers (hopefully!) enjoy working in.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:25pm - 2:35pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation

2:45pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Resolvers Everywhere: Rethinking Client and Server Boundaries in GraphQL - Janette Cheng, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 2:55pm PDT
Boardroom
In GraphQL, a resolver is defined as “the internal function for determining the resolved value of a field.” Traditionally, resolvers live exclusively on the server—but should they? Many teams find themselves either duplicating business logic on the client or pushing client-specific concerns into backend code when trying to treat server models as view models.

This talk explores an alternative: client-side resolvers. With Relay Resolvers, clients can define fields that combine and transform data locally. We'll walk through how they work and guidance for deciding when logic belongs on the server versus the client.
Speakers
avatar for Janette Cheng

Janette Cheng

Software Engineer, Meta
Working on the GraphQL client and build infrastructure for mobile apps at Meta
resolvers everywhere pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 2:55pm PDT
Boardroom
  Clients

2:45pm PDT

Scaling Real-Time: Building Federated Subscriptions in Rust - Denis Badurina, The Guild
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
Our journey implementing federated GraphQL subscriptions in Hive Router, a high-performance federation gateway written in Rust. Covering the architectural decisions and technical challenges we faced bringing real-time capabilities to a federated environment, the engineering work required to support the full spectrum of subscription transports (WebSockets, SSE, Multipart HTTP and HTTP callbacks), and how Rust’s performance characteristics enabled us to handle subscription workloads at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Denis Badurina

Denis Badurina

Denis from The Guild, The Guild
I am a self-taught senior software architect, with a distinguishing trait of resiliently finding simple solutions to complex problems using communication through words and code.

Starting from my first Lego set, I've been in love with development throughout my whole life. As a creator, having the ability to turn thoughts into reality is a gift I find essential. Forever learning through practical applications, bad decisions and positive thoughts - I, ulti... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  Federation + Distributed Systems

3:20pm PDT

Sponsored Session: Hands Off the Keyboard: An Introduction to Agentic Coding for GraphQL Developers - Erik Bylund, Apollo GraphQL
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
Every developer has the same instinct when working with AI: take over. Copy the output, fix it by hand, wonder why AI ""doesn't really work."" That instinct is the problem.

When AI-generated code is wrong, the fix isn't editing the code — it's improving the instructions that produced it. This talk teaches that discipline using Agent Skills — open-format markdown workflows — and the GraphQL SDLC as working context. We'll build skills for schema design, resolvers, testing, and docs, developing intuition for when to refine instructions versus when you've hit a model limitation.

You'll leave with transferable techniques, open-source GraphQL skills, and the beginnings of your own agentic intuition.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Bylund

Erik Bylund

Staff Solutions Architect, Apollo GraphQL

Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  AI and LLMs

3:20pm PDT

Was It Worth It? Lessons from Implementing Two GraphQL Routers. In JavaScript and Rust - Arda Tanrıkulu, The Guild
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
The steps we took at implementing a GraphQL gateway first in JavaScript, and following those steps in Rust again.
Advantages of JavaScript and disadvantage of lack of diversity in the GraphQL Rust ecosystem.
Is Rust worth? Is it just performance? How hard was it to rethink everything done in the JavaScript version?
Speakers
avatar for Arda Tanrıkulu

Arda Tanrıkulu

Software Developer, The Guild
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:20pm - 3:45pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Federation + Distributed Systems

4:05pm PDT

Simplifying MCP Tool Sprawl With GraphQL - Roy Derks, IBM
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
As teams adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP), they often run into a new problem: tool sprawl. Every backend API turns into its own MCP server, each with separate schemas, auth, versioning, and deployment concerns. What starts as a clean integration quickly becomes hard to manage. In this talk, I'll show how GraphQL can act as a unifying layer for MCP using GraphQL capabilities like schema introspection and persisted documents. By exposing multiple backend services through a single GraphQL API and connecting it via one MCP server, LLMs gain access to a rich, strongly typed interface without an explosion of tools. We’ll walk through a practical architecture and share patterns for keeping MCP systems scalable, discoverable, and governable beyond early experiments.
Speakers
avatar for Roy Derks

Roy Derks

Developer Experience, IBM
Roy Derks is a lifelong software developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. Currently chasing his dreams in Silicon Valley, California. Roy's mission is to make the world a better place through technology by inspiring developers all over the world, more specifically... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  AI and LLMs

4:05pm PDT

The Case Against __typename - Sabrina Wasserman, Meta Platforms Inc.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
The GraphQL Schema Documentation (https://graphql.org/learn/schema/) defines the __typename field as “a special meta-field that automatically exists on every Object type and resolves to the name of that type, providing a way to differentiate between data types on the client.” At Meta, we’ve learned that relying on __typename to delineate type on the client can actually be a foot-gun. Querying __typename for every object is clunky, increases payload size, creates backward compatibility issues for older, unupgradable clients, and isn’t sufficient for handling complex schema cases like nested abstract types.

In this talk, I’ll walk through specific scenarios where __typename falls short, and demonstrate how using a new metadata field, `is_fulfilled`, is better-suited to writing more robust GraphQL clients.
Speakers
avatar for Sabrina Wasserman

Sabrina Wasserman

Software Engineer, Meta Platforms Inc.
GraphQL client-side frameworks software engineer at Meta.
V2 The Case Against typename pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
  Clients

4:05pm PDT

Caching Deep Dive: The Ultimate Way To Speed up Your GraphQL API - Uri Goldshtein, The Guild
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Boardroom
What we will cover:
The "All-or-Nothing" Barrier: We'll analyze the limitations of traditional Document Caching in GraphQL. We will explain why a single personalized field or a volatile "live" value can invalidate an entire response, leading to low cache hit rates and overloaded origin servers.

Partial Query Caching (PQC) Architecture: We will introduce a granular approach to caching. You'll learn how to decompose complex queries into atomic components, separating static fragments from dynamic ones within the same request to dramatically boost cache efficiency.

The Power of the Edge: We'll discuss the benefits of moving the "split-and-merge" logic to the Edge. We will explain how an intelligent Gateway can manage this complexity close to the user, saving expensive compute resources at the origin and reducing latency.

The Next Frontier: PQC meets @defer: To wrap up, we'll demonstrate how combining caching with the GraphQL @defer directive allows us to return cached fragments in milliseconds while streaming the remaining dynamic parts as they resolve.
Speakers
avatar for Uri Goldshtein

Uri Goldshtein

CEO, The Guild

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT
Boardroom
  Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation

4:40pm PDT

Scaling GraphQL on AWS: Production Architecture for High-Volume Data Systems - Aishwarya Tirumala, Amazon
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Boardroom
This presentation explores production-scale GraphQL architecture on AWS, demonstrating how to handle millions of requests and complex data operations at enterprise scale. Drawing from real-world pricing systems that serve thousands of internal clients, we'll examine the architectural decisions behind building resilient, high-performance GraphQL services using AWS AppSync, Lambda, and DynamoDB. The session covers critical
production considerations including query optimization strategies, caching layers, connection pooling, and event-driven architectures that power real-time notifications at scale. Attendees will learn how GraphQL simplifies data access across massive datasets while maintaining performance and reliability. We'll discuss scaling patterns, monitoring strategies, and lessons learned from operating GraphQL services that handle billions of daily operations across global marketplaces. This technical deep-dive is designed for engineers interested in understanding how to architect and operate GraphQL systems at huge scale, with practical insights from Amazon's production environments.
Speakers
avatar for Aishwarya Tirumala

Aishwarya Tirumala

Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Aishwarya is a Software Engineer on Amazon's Retail Pricing Platform team, where she builds the GraphQL based infrastructure that powers pricing data access across Amazon's global marketplace. She's passionate about leveraging GraphQL to simplify complex data access patterns and building... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Boardroom
  Production Insights - Huge Scale

5:15pm PDT

Beyond HTTP 200: Observability With GraphQL - Kamil Kisiela, The Guild
Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
To run GraphQL in production with confidence, we need more than just uptime checks and HTTP 200 - we need deep visibility into the graph itself.

In this talk, we will explore how to implement the three pillars of observability: traces, metrics, and logs - specifically for GraphQL.

We'll explore OTel and GraphQL, allowing you to trace requests from the gateway down to individual Federation subgraphs and deeper.

Finally, we will look at how to leverage dedicated tooling like Hive Console to make sense of this data.
Speakers
avatar for Kamil Kisiela

Kamil Kisiela

Developer, The Guild
Working on GraphQL tooling since before I had a mustache. I'm proud of it (the tooling).
Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT
Grand Ballroom I
  Observability + Telemetry + Tracing
 
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  • Keynote Sessions
  • Observability + Telemetry + Tracing
  • Performance
  • Production Insights - Huge Scale
  • Production Insights - Regular Scale
  • Registration + Badge Pick-up
  • Schema Design + Evolution + Governance
  • Security
  • Servers
  • Solutions Showcase
  • Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation
  • WG Day
  • Audience Level
  • Advanced
  • Any
  • Beginer
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Presentation Slides Attached
  • Yes