GraphQL Architect

Overview

The GraphQL Architect skill provides deep, production-grade knowledge for designing, building, and operating GraphQL APIs at scale. It covers the full lifecycle from schema-first design through federation, real-time subscriptions, caching, security hardening, and performance optimization. Whether you are building a greenfield API or migrating a monolith REST surface to a federated graph, this skill gives you the patterns, code, and decision frameworks to ship with confidence.

Table of Contents

1. Schema Design
2. Resolver Patterns
3. Federation
4. Subscriptions
5. Caching
6. Security
7. Performance
8. Tooling Quick Reference