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Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform

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Re: Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform

#11
This looks really interesting. (And in case anyone from the Apollo team is reading - just want to say I'm a huge fan of the product in general. Keep up the great work!)

The one thing that seems like a bit of a tough sell with this announcement is it looks like a lot of these integrations are pretty deeply intertwined with different parts of the framework and might not be easy to set up if you're using just the Apollo client and not the server. Just browsing quickly I see that some of the components require some workarounds and proxies and such with other backends. The post talks about making it easy to incrementally add graphql to existing apps, but for any apps built in languages other than NodeJS I'd worry that it might not be a first-class experience to use the entire platform.

I'll definitely have to look through the docs more thoroughly though, there's a lot here.

Re: Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform

#13

They have GitHub, Netflix & AirBnB amongst others featured on the homepage giving the impression they are customers of apollographql.com. Is this intentional & true? This site is from creators of MeteorJS, the Meteor Development Group Inc.

[Apollo cofounder here — we are indeed the same team that built Meteor.] Yup, all three are customers.

That's kind of a stretch for Netflix. A few teams recently started an evaluation pilot, and even that is only for internal tools (i.e. not Netflix.com). There are no current plans to use GraphQL for anything customer facing at Netflix. Nothing against Apollo, but I'd hate for people to get the wrong idea.
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