"GraphQL Mesh in Practice"
"GraphQL Mesh in Practice" is an authoritative guide for architects, engineers, and technical leads navigating modern API unification. With a meticulous breakdown of GraphQL Mesh's architecture, the book demystifies its handler system, schema stitching, and its role as an API gateway and orchestrator. Readers are equipped to compare Mesh with competing solutions like Apollo Federation and Hasura while learning to harness Mesh's pluggable and extensible model to bridge distributed APIs across protocols and domains.
From initial configuration through production deployment, the book offers hands-on strategies for securely integrating REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, and database sources, all while maintaining robust type safety and scalable project organization. Advanced chapters address real-world concerns: orchestrating hybrid queries, implementing cross-source authentication and rate limiting, and building custom resolvers and transforms to realize expressive, business-driven data flows. Best practices for error handling, performance profiling, and distributed monitoring are presented for sustained operational excellence.
Rounding out the practical focus, the text delves into security, privacy, and compliance, providing actionable advice on authentication, authorization, encryption, and threat reduction. It closes with advanced topics such as live queries, real-time subscriptions, contract testing, and case studies from multi-cloud and global-scale deployments. Whether you're modernizing legacy systems or pushing boundaries with cutting-edge API federation, "GraphQL Mesh in Practice" delivers field-tested knowledge for building flexible, resilient, and future-ready API infrastructure.
