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2026 32

  1. Does GraphQL break HTTP caching? Here's what POST gives up.
  2. Four of us, every customer: what joining WunderGraph's CS team is like
  3. AI governance: 11 laws, frameworks, and assurance schemes—and 3 jobs they serve.
  4. AI Builds. Culture Ships.
  5. Understanding the N+1 Problem in GraphQL (and Why It’s Not Just GraphQL)
  6. Why your LLM bill exploded overnight (and how to regain control)
  7. Scaling Without Breaking Culture: Lessons from WunderGraph's Madrid Work Week 2026
  8. Safelist GraphQL Operations for AI Agents | Cosmo MCP Gateway
  9. Don't Let AI Agents Improvise Against Production GraphQL
  10. RAG Cost Control for AI Agents: How to Prevent AI Spend Drifts
  11. Where Does API Complexity Live?
  12. The Three Bottlenecks AI Can't Code Away
  13. Per-Tool OAuth Scopes for MCP, Derived from Your Schema
  14. GraphQL vs REST: 18 Claims Fact-Checked with Primary Sources (2026)
  15. How the Fission Algorithm Works for Top‑Down GraphQL Federation Schema Design
  16. GraphQL Federation Schema Changes: From Months to Days with Hub
  17. Cost Control for Your Supergraph
  18. Microservice Dependencies: How @requires Makes Them Explicit
  19. GraphQL Is the API Layer AI Agents Actually Need
  20. ConnectRPC: Generate Typed SDKs from Your GraphQL API
  21. The Dream Query: Consumer-First GraphQL API Design
  22. Design Like a Monolith, Implement as Microservices
  23. Why Platform Engineering Teams Become Bottlenecks at Scale
  24. Why MCP Is the Ceiling, Not the Foundation of Enterprise AI Agent Architecture
  25. GraphQL Federation Was Built Backwards
  26. MCP Scope Step-Up Authorization: From Implementation to Spec Contribution
  27. The Missing Layer in GraphQL Federation
  28. Customer Success as Federation: A Layer for Context and Trust
  29. The State of Federation 2026 Survey Is Open
  30. Three Handlers for Event Driven GraphQL Subscriptions
  31. 10 Principles for Designing Good GraphQL Schemas
  32. The Hidden Cost of Non-Compliance in AI

2025 54

  1. What a Year at WunderGraph Looks Like
  2. Cosmo Streams: GraphQL Subscriptions Without the Hurdle
  3. TypeScript Plugin Support for Cosmo Connect
  4. Extending Subgraph Checks in Cosmo
  5. Applying for a Role at WunderGraph
  6. From 10+ Seconds to Under One: Solving Their Slowest Operation
  7. Building the Company We Always Wanted to Work In
  8. Why Customer Success Can't Be Automated
  9. GraphQL Operation Descriptions: How a Spec Update Solved Our MCP Problem
  10. When Prompt Injection Gets Real: Use GraphQL Federation to Contain It
  11. MCP Gateway with Curated GraphQL Persisted Operations
  12. A Smooth API Developer Experience with WunderGraph Cosmo
  13. Understanding GraphQL Federation Versions (V1, V1.5, and V2)
  14. Apollo Federation vs GraphQL Federation vs Cosmo Connect
  15. A GraphQL Federation directive for Subgraph-level compliance: @openfed__requireFetchReasons
  16. Cosmo Connect Tutorials for Router Plugins and gRPC Services
  17. The Evolution of GraphQL Federation and the Entity Layer
  18. Acoustic saves $178K in engineering costs with WunderGraph Cosmo
  19. Cosmo Connect: Federation Made Accessible
  20. The WunderGraph Engineering Growth Framework
  21. How Our Core Beliefs Drive the Way We Scale
  22. Over 15 Years of APIs with Kevin Swiber
  23. The Architecture Behind 40 Deploys a Day at Luxury Presence
  24. The Future of GraphQL Federation
  25. Behind the Counter: How Cosmo Works
  26. Managing Permissions in Cosmo Just Got Easier with Groups
  27. The Future of Federation: Replacing GraphQL Subgraphs with gRPC Services
  28. GraphQL Federation Over gRPC: Type-Safe Subgraphs Explained
  29. REST in Peace—Connectors Were Never the Right Supergraph Abstraction
  30. Scaling GraphQL Federation: Inside Cosmo’s Food Park
  31. How to Connect REST and gRPC APIs to GraphQL Federation with Cosmo Connect
  32. When to Migrate from Cosmo OSS
  33. Golang sync.WaitGroup: Powerful, but tricky
  34. Why AI Needs A Common Language
  35. Rethinking API Access in the Age of AI Agents
  36. The Impact of MCP and LLMs on Software Development - A Practical Example
  37. Cosmo MCP: Agent Mode now handles all the boring parts of GraphQL Federation (Right in your IDE)
  38. Query Plan Regression Testing in GraphQL Federation
  39. Golang Sync.Pool | Memory Pool Example
  40. Why we couldn't resist raising from eBay - our Series A announcement
  41. AI-Assisted Coding: A Catalyst for Hiring Great Devs
  42. Syncing Up in Bretten: Final Thoughts
  43. @inaccessible Keys in Federated GraphQL APIs - A Deep Dive
  44. Syncing Up in Bretten: Day 1
  45. Safeguarding APIs: How K Health Ensures Security While Scaling with Cosmo
  46. SoundCloud and WunderGraph Cosmo Cut Computing Costs by 86%
  47. GraphQL Federation Architecture: Open/Closed Principle & Project-Based SuperGraphs
  48. Supergraph Kickoff: Scaling Your Federated GraphQL for the Super Bowl
  49. Introducing the @configureDescription directive for GraphQL Federation
  50. Scaling GraphQL Schema Usage to Billions of Requests per Day
  51. From Custom Code to Cutting-Edge: On The Beach Adopts WunderGraph Cosmo for GraphQL Federation
  52. How Normalization affects Query Plan Caching in GraphQL Federation
  53. Is gRPC Really Better for Microservices Than GraphQL?
  54. Expr Lang: Go centric expression language for dynamic configurations

2024 29

  1. Are Connectors the path forward for GraphQL Federation?
  2. I was wrong about GraphQL
  3. A Comprehensive Overview of GraphQL Federation in Open Source
  4. How to align Open Source and Enterprise Sales
  5. Live from the GraphQL Conf: The State of Distributed GraphQL 2024
  6. SOC2 Type II is a wrap
  7. Zero-Cost Abstractions for @skip and @include in Federated GraphQL
  8. Cosmo Graph Feature Flags vs. Apollo Progressive Overrides: A Different Model for Gradual Rollouts
  9. 99% Smaller GraphQL Queries with AST Minification
  10. Designing a Multi-Tenant Federated GraphQL Schema
  11. Cosmo OSS Schema Registry Compatibility Mode for Apollo Router and Gateway
  12. How Monkey Factory Uses WunderGraph Cosmo for Federated GraphQL and Event-Driven Subscriptions
  13. SSO Just Got Better: OpenID Connect + SCIM for Identity Management
  14. When to use GraphQL vs Federation vs tRPC vs REST vs gRPC vs AsyncAPI vs WebHooks
  15. Why Teams Still Choose GraphQL, and Why Others Move Away
  16. So now Cosmo is secure - officially
  17. How PemPem Accelerates Product Development with a Custom GraphQL Federation Approach
  18. Implementing the Viewer Pattern in Federated GraphQL APIs
  19. Rate Limiting GraphQL Federation with Cosmo Router & Redis
  20. How TravelPass Group manages PCI compliance with GraphQL and WunderGraph Cosmo
  21. Why SoundtrackYourBrand Switched From Apollo to Cosmo
  22. Why you should avoid exhaustive switch case in API clients
  23. Announcing Field Level Authorization for GraphQL Federation with Cosmo Router
  24. Effective Integration Testing for Distributed Systems: Mastering Cosmo Router with GraphQL Federation
  25. Serverless GraphQL Federation Router for AWS Lambda
  26. Scaling GraphQL Subscriptions in Go with Epoll and Event Driven Architecture
  27. Announcing EDFS - Event Driven Federated Subscriptions
  28. Native Subscriptions with Cosmo Router
  29. GraphQL Federation Field-level Metrics 101

2023 28

  1. GraphQL is Finally Boring (And That’s Why It’s Winning in 2026)
  2. Introducing astjson: Transform and Merge JSON Objects with Unmatched Speed in Go
  3. A C-Level Introduction to API Composition
  4. How Cosmo meets Compliance Requirements and Saves Onboarding Time
  5. How to Migrate from a GraphQL Monolith to Federation
  6. How to analyze the usage of your GraphQL Schema
  7. An Open Source Schema Registry with Schema Checks for Federated GraphQL
  8. An Introduction to Cosmo Router: Open-Source Federation v1 and v2 Gateway
  9. Dataloader 3.0: A new algorithm to solve the N+1 Problem
  10. OSS Analytics, Monitoring, and Tracing for Federated GraphQL APIs
  11. Cosmo Router: High Performance Federation v1 & v2 Router / Gateway
  12. Announcing Open Federation
  13. 5 Best Practices for Backends-for-Frontends
  14. 7 Key Lessons I Learned While Building Backends-for-Frontends
  15. Using invisible divs in GitHub Discussions as a key-value store
  16. Preventing prompt injections with Honeypot functions
  17. From 26 Minutes to 20 Seconds: Using pprof to optimize large GraphQL Operations in Go
  18. GraphQL doesn't solve under & overfetching, Relay & WunderGraph do
  19. 5 Tools for Building Backends-for-Frontends (and When to Move to Federation)
  20. WunderGraph raises $3M in seed funding to build GitHub for APIs
  21. How Not invented here kills innovation and 5 rules to avoid it
  22. Is GraphQL dying? 2023 Trend Analysis of REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI, SOAP, gRPC and tRPC
  23. 15 GraphQL Developer Tools I Use To Make Building APIs Easier (2026)
  24. How to be the worst engineer on your team?
  25. The most important lesson I've had to learn as a technical founder
  26. GraphQL's @defer and @stream Directives are overkill
  27. Building WunderGraph
  28. How to turn employee resignations into a growth opportunity for your company

2022 12

  1. The simplicity of tRPC with the power of GraphQL
  2. GraphQL Subscriptions: WebSockets vs SSE and Federation Quirks
  3. GraphQL is not Terraform
  4. 5 ways to stitch, integrate, compose & federate multiple GraphQL APIs
  5. When hiring developers gets tough, focus on developer efficiency
  6. Stop Building Your MVP Before You Figure Out These 7 Founder Lessons
  7. Open Source GraphQL CDN / Edge Cache with Cloudflare, Fastly, and Fly.io
  8. GraphQL Subscriptions: Why we use SSE/Fetch over Websockets
  9. API Design Best Practices for Long-Running Operations: GraphQL vs REST
  10. Thunk-based Resolvers: Building a Flexible GraphQL API Gateway
  11. How to market your product as a Technical Founder
  12. What every GraphQL user should know about HTTP and REST

2021 6

  1. GraphQL file uploads - evaluating the 5 most common approaches
  2. GraphQL in production - Analyzing public GraphQL APIs #1: Twitch.tv
  3. The Fusion of GraphQL, REST, JSON-Schema and HTTP2
  4. Versionless APIs - Making APIs backwards compatible FOREVER to enable businesses to collaborate
  5. The complete GraphQL Security Guide: Fixing the 13 most common GraphQL Vulnerabilities to make your API production ready
  6. Generated GraphQL APIs: Tight Coupling as a Service

2020 2

  1. Why not use GraphQL?
  2. GraphQL is not meant to be exposed over the internet