GraphQLConf 2026

Large engineering organizations now run GraphQL at the center of their product stacks, serving billions of requests across web, mobile, and internal clients. The questions have shifted accordingly. The interesting problems are no longer about whether to adopt GraphQL, or how to write a resolver. They are about what it takes to operate GraphQL reliably, evolve it safely, and scale the humans who work on it.

This panel brings together engineers from companies running GraphQL in production at large scale to compare notes on the realities of that work. Each panelist has spent years operating a GraphQL gateway or federated graph that fronts hundreds of services and thousands of fields, owned by dozens of teams. The goal of the session is a candid, technical conversation about what has worked, what has not, and what they would do differently.

This session is intended for engineers and tech leads who already run GraphQL in production or are planning to, and who want to hear from peers operating at similar or larger scale. Familiarity with GraphQL fundamentals is assumed. No introductory material will be covered.