Mei Chen
Lead API Engineer
GraphQL shines when you treat the schema as a contract with your consumers. Invest in schema linting, change management policies, and Explorer docs that help teams self-serve queries.
Avoid shipping complexity downstream—use resolvers to reshape data and enforce authorization so clients stay lightweight.
Measure resolver performance, cache hit rates, and error signatures. Observability pipelines should capture field-level telemetry so you can right-size costs and catch over-fetching early.
Adopt persisted queries and operation whitelisting for your most sensitive surfaces, and pair them with canary rollouts before deploying breaking changes.