# Apollo Federation enables parallel development across teams through a unified GraphQL graph

DevFeed: [Apollo Federation enables parallel development across teams through a unified GraphQL graph](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/unblocking-teams-to-go-faster-with-apollo-federation-23553.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/unblocking-teams-to-go-faster-with-apollo-federation>)

Author: Matt DeBergalis

Published: 2021-04-06T07:28:53Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Netflix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/netflix.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [apollo-federation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo-federation.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gateway.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [netflix](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netflix.md>), [product-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-engineering.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Apollo Federation lets service and domain teams own parts of a GraphQL schema while contributing to a unified graph. It describes Apollo Gateway and Managed Federation as tools for distributed architectures, schema deployment, composition integrity checks, and parallel development across teams.

## Source excerpt

Building software for the internet in 2021 is hard. It's no longer just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We now have to deliver our products beyond just websites to mobile, voice, in-store, chat, TV, and more--while integrating data from many services and delivering on time. One of the biggest things that slow down developers is waiting to align work with other teams. It is common to get blocked while waiting to coordinate or waiting for their backlog to free up.