# Apollo Router: our GraphQL Federation runtime in Rust

DevFeed: [Apollo Router: our GraphQL Federation runtime in Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/apollo-router-our-graphql-federation-runtime-in-rust-23210.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/apollo-router-our-graphql-federation-runtime-in-rust>)

Author: Jesse Rosenberger

Published: 2021-11-10T11:15:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Critical Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/critical-infrastructure.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [apollo-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo-federation.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [critical-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/critical-infrastructure.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [graphql-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql-federation.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [memory-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory-management.md>), [node-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node-js.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [stateless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stateless.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo introduces the Apollo Router, a next-generation GraphQL Federation runtime written in Rust. The article describes its standalone, multithreaded design and reports early benchmarks showing less than 10 ms of added latency per operation and up to eight times the load capacity of the JavaScript Apollo Gateway.

## Source excerpt

At Apollo, we help developers power the world's most important applications with a graph. Whether you're shopping online, booking travel, or binge-watching your favorite movies, you're using the graph every day. These experiences are all built on Apollo Federation, an architecture for declaratively composing GraphQL APIs into a unified graph.