# Intro - Chris Oman

**URL:** <https://community.apollographql.com/t/intro-chris-oman/8222>\
**Category:** Introductions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/intro-chris-oman/8222 "2025-01-29T12:29:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![coman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/coman/32/3548_2.png) [@coman](https://community.apollographql.com/u/coman)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/intro-chris-oman/8222/1 "2025-01-29T12:29:25Z")

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Hello everyone. My name is Chris Oman. I am a staff engineer with TripleLift, Inc. We have been using GraphQL Federation for the last 2.5 years.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Boerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/dan_boerner/32/5748_2.png) [@Dan\_Boerner](https://community.apollographql.com/u/Dan_Boerner)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/intro-chris-oman/8222/2 "2025-01-29T15:32:10Z")

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Welcome Chris. Great to have you here.

Tell us a bit about your Supergraph. How many subgraphs? Are you still adding new ones to connect to existing REST APIs?

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**Author:** ![coman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/coman/32/3548_2.png) [@coman](https://community.apollographql.com/u/coman)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/intro-chris-oman/8222/3 "2025-02-05T18:15:04Z")

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We are about 3 years into our Supergraph journey. Thankfully, as we decided to move into a microservices approach, we adopted GraphQL right away. All of our microservices only expose a GraphQL endpoint.

Our existing service-monolith only integrates with a UI-monolith. The database ends up being shared with the microservices until we are able to fully transition away from the monolith.

We currently have about 25 subgraphs running. Nothing large by any means compared to the hundreds or thousands that others run, but large enough to cause us to have to think about what we are doing and what processes we need to have in place.