# How Booking.com Orchestrated Their Service Architecture with Apollo Federation

DevFeed: [How Booking.com Orchestrated Their Service Architecture with Apollo Federation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-booking-com-orchestrated-their-service-architecture-with-apollo-federation-23360.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/how-booking-com-orchestrated-their-service-architecture-with-apollo-federation>)

Author: Maylee Jacob

Published: 2025-05-07T13:45:42Z

Content type: article

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>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apollo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo.md>), [apollo-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo-federation.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [booking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/booking.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiments.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [travel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/travel.md>), [travel-industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/travel-industry.md>)

## AI overview

This customer case study describes how Booking.com used Apollo Federation and GraphQL to move from a centralized API orchestration layer toward a distributed, federated service architecture. The supplied text reports that the earlier approach created performance, development, maintenance, and domain-specific optimization challenges, but the article text is incomplete.

## Source excerpt

This post is part of our GraphQL Summit 2024 customer series, highlighting how leading teams are using Apollo to accelerate development and build world-class applications. Join hundreds of your peers this October as we return for GraphQL Summit 2025. Booking.com, a leader in the online travel industry, has significantly advanced its digital infrastructure by integrating Apollo Federation into its service architecture.