So you spent all this time building and deploying your GraphQL API but your users are reporting slow queries and crashes. Before you can pinpoint those issues you first need to know how many requests you are getting, what each query was, and what’s going on in your resolvers. Join Dan where you will learn what observability is, how you can install it onto your GraphQL API, and how you can use it to improve your user's experience.

We will have a look at common ways enterprises use GraphQL, what common software design principles are used in enterprises, and how these pattern and principles can help us improve our GraphQL APIs.

This ad-hoc talk is just Benjie (and Michael Staib from ChilliCream!) riffing about some of the work that's going on in the GraphQL Working Groups currently. Topics covered include:

• GraphQL Spec Freeze July 2025 - a new spec cut is coming!
• Incremental Delivery
• Schema Coordinates
• Fragment Arguments
• Nullability
• Operation Descriptions
• Service Capabilities
• GraphQL-over-HTTP
• Partial Success Status Code
• Composite Schemas
• GraphQL.js v17
• GraphiQL v5
• OpenTelemetry
• Documentation Overhaul
• Community Working Group
• Website Redesign
• GET INVOLVED!

The GraphQL community has come together to standardize how people can build distributed systems with GraphQL as an orchestrator. In this talk I will explain the general idea that we have for GraphQL as an Orchestrator in this space and how the new specification is tackling this. We will look at the progress we have made since last GraphQL Conf in the GraphQL composite schema working group and also get some sneak peaks at our early RFCs and prototypes. I will outline how this new specification is taking the best ideas of existing solutions in the market to make the next big leap towards mainstream adoption. This will allow anyone to build tooling by implementing the spec or parts of the spec that seamlessly integrate with other vendors.