Adopting GraphQL Federation at State Farm - Our First Baby Steps

Howdy everyone, just wanted to shoot the community a link to a blog post State Farm released about our first steps into Federated GraphQL. Would love for everyone to check it out and provide feedback or ask questions if they have any

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Great writeup and a classic story of initial “Proof of Value”.

Our concept focused on modeling a policy retrieval system. This system allowed us to fetch policy details, agent details, claims details, and customer details all through a single supergraph. We ended up building 10 subgraphs that exposed 15 queries, 1 mutation, 63 types and 378 fields. Pages that would require multiple network requests to gather up the data they needed to paint a screen could now all be done with one call against our supergraph.

Note the difference between this and a very limited technical POC. They went after an important system, proved out the concept, but more importantly the value to the business and customer.

:raised_hands: Well done @austinmehmetee2g and @undefined!
It’s been so rewarding to work with your team ,and watch this project grow to deliver impact and real value to State Farm’s platform and customers.

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