Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration company, is announcing the general availability of its Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, as well as new GraphOS platform enhancements, designed around optimizing enterprises’ API strategies.
APIs are the cornerstone of modern applications, from SaaS to web apps, IoT, and AI-powered services. Ensuring that these APIs are optimized through seamless, scalable orchestration is crucial for seeing valuable return on enterprise investments.
Revolutionizing API orchestration, Apollo GraphQL’s new Apollo Connectors aim to reduce the costs and risks associated with traditional API design and orchestration. These connectors accelerate development and reduce costs, all while ensuring that existing technological investments remain intact.
The new Apollo Connectors operate by enabling teams to orchestrate several REST APIs into a single GraphQL endpoint, achieved through pure declarative configuration. By eliminating complex middleware and boilerplate code, the Apollo Connectors deliver a standards-based federation architecture that accelerates orchestration in as little as minutes.
“No matter what you’re building, whether it’s cloud modernization, agentic AI, or personalized apps and features, it’s powered by APIs,” said Matt DeBergalis, CTO and co-founder of Apollo GraphQL. “Today, developers spend an enormous fraction of their time writing code to orchestrate how those APIs are called, adding time and complexity to every project. With Apollo Connectors, teams can now adopt declarative, standards-based GraphQL for every orchestration workload, large or small, in less time and with less risk than the alternative. We’re excited to see GraphQL become the new standard for API orchestration in the cloud-native era.”
Additionally, the Apollo Connectors reduces network hops, cuts API latency, and improves overall application performance. With new built-in tooling—including integrations with Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ plugins—developers benefit from auto-completion, debugging, and real-time schema validation.
Cox Automotive, the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider, is already implementing Apollo Connectors and seeing positive results.
“Apollo Connectors really accelerated our API modernization and monetization roadmap,” said Mark Meiller, principal platform engineer at Cox Automotive. “What would have been a yearlong rewrite of our foundational vehicle data layer has become a two-day implementation. By connecting our existing REST API into our federated graph, we avoided over a million dollars in development costs while improving performance. Complex vehicle data logic that would have required extensive rewriting, and frankly, was seen as an insurmountable task, is now transformed into a few lines of declarative code.”
This announcement also features new updates for the GraphOS platform, engineered to yield next-generation performance for federated GraphQL architectures, according to Apollo GraphQL. Introducing a ground-up rewrite with the new native query planner added in Router 2.0, the GraphOS platform enhances query execution speed, reduces infrastructure costs, and increases scalability. The platform also works seamlessly with the Apollo Connectors, eliminating the need for changes to existing federated GraphQL deployments.
To learn more about Apollo GraphQL’s latest capabilities, please visit https://www.apollographql.com/.