# Five Years of Apollo Federation: the Standard for Enterprise API Platforms

DevFeed: [Five Years of Apollo Federation: the Standard for Enterprise API Platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/five-years-of-apollo-federation-the-standard-for-enterprise-api-platforms-23251.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/celebrating-five-years-of-apollo-federation>)

Author: Jeff Auriemma

Published: 2024-04-09T05:35:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [apollo-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo-federation.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [modular](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modular.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

The article marks five years since Apollo Federation code was first published and reviews GraphQL federation's role in composing APIs at scale. It describes federation as declarative, composable, modular, and compatible with centralized governance and team autonomy, while citing adoption by several organizations and Gartner's forecast of increased enterprise use.

## Source excerpt

GraphQL federation has emerged as the industry consensus for composing APIs at scale. Organizations such as Netflix, Expedia, and Wayfair quickly adopted this architecture to abstract API complexity and further adoption is on the rise. Gartner predicts that "By 2027, 30% of enterprises using GraphQL will use GraphQL federation, up from less than 5% in 2024."1 This pattern didn't emerge by accident; it was created and refined here at Apollo GraphQL.