Would be interested to see Apollo Federation as a ...
# general
j
Would be interested to see Apollo Federation as a way of putting a GraphQL Gateway infront of multiple AppSync services. Currently AppSync is not very scalable nor is one GraphQL Server. So Apollo Router (Rust edition) running in a Fargate with ALB would be cool. Especially with a Cognito pool to top it off
f
Hey @Joe Kendal, I’m not too familiar with GraphQL federation. I briefly read their docs, they recommend against running the gateway inside Lambda due to cold start. Is that why you wanted it to run inside Fargate?
j
Exactly the reason. It takes it a while to join all the subgraphs into one big supergraph because it has to introspect a bunch of endpoints and create a single schema. I haven't worked with it yet, but am planning to once the public beta is out for Apollo Router.
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