# GraphQL Summit recap: Apollo announces Federation 2, Apollo Router, public graphs, embeddable Explorer, and Contracts

DevFeed: [GraphQL Summit recap: Apollo announces Federation 2, Apollo Router, public graphs, embeddable Explorer, and Contracts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/graphql-summit-recap-everything-we-launched-23344.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/graphql-summit-recap-product-announcements>)

Author: Jessica Hofman

Published: 2021-11-19T12:57:23Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [recap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recap.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [summit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/summit.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [workshops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshops.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo's GraphQL Summit recap covers sessions on building and scaling GraphQL and announces new Apollo Graph Platform releases, including Federation 2 and Apollo Router in alpha, public graphs and an embeddable Explorer generally available, and Contracts in preview for Apollo Studio Enterprise.

## Source excerpt

GraphQL Summit welcomed more than 10,000 developers and engineering leaders virtually on November 10 & 11 for two days of sessions, panels, and workshops. New for the fall Summit, attendees could choose from two session tracks (Build and Scale) on Day 1. The Build Track offered best practices for building, testing, and maintaining GraphQL. The Scale Track presented insights into the key considerations for scaling the graph to improve innovation, velocity, and productivity.