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Issue 424• Sep 24, 2026

Tools & Open Source

Apollo Client 4.3 is here: native custom scalar support, type-safe cache access, and more consistent @defer and @stream behavior. See what's new and upgrade today.

Native Datadog Tracing in Hive Router

Hive Router now integrates with Datadog's native Rust tracer for all-request APM statistics, native sampling, and direct export through the Datadog Agent.

GraphQL Codegen Watch Mode Improvements

Watch mode is the recommended way to run GraphQL Codegen with Client Preset and Server Preset. Until recently, it didn't behave the same way everywhere. That's fixed now, and it made room for some speed gains. 🔁 Consistent watcher Watch mode now works the same way across plugins and presets, and profiling works on every run. ⚡ Server Preset v0.19 Server Preset now caches its most expensive work, making watch re-runs up to 80% faster on Hive Console's codebase. 🪟 Better Windows support File path issues that broke watch mode and schema loading on Windows are fixed.

Hive Console: Push Schema Revisions Before Deployment

Upload immutable schema revisions after merge and publish the exact revision when the service is deployed.

Simfinity.js 3.2: GraphQL object types to PostgreSQL or MongoDB APIs

Simfinity.js, the Node.js framework generates GraphQL queries, CRUD mutations, relationships and storage mappings from GraphQLObjectType definitions. The new PostgreSQL adapter uses native tables, UUIDs and foreign keys, alongside the existing MongoDB/Mongoose adapter. Applications can add validation, lifecycle hooks and authorization rules; MCP integration is a separate optional package

Events

This Weekend @ GraphQL Hyderabad: Context Layers for AI - Knowledge Graphs & Intelligent APIs

Your AI app is only as smart as the data it can reach. Bolt a model onto a pile of disconnected tables and you get confident answers with nothing underneath them - an agent that can't tell you how it knows what it knows, and an API that hands back rows instead of insight. Join us at GraphQL Hyderabad, Sunday, September 27.

GraphQL Day @ FOST London — Sep 30-Oct 1

GraphQL Day @ FOST — community-organized GraphQL events at Future of Software Technologies conferences worldwide. FREE TICKETS are available! Join the GraphQL Discord and ask for your free ticket in the GraphQL London channel: https://discord.graphql.org

GraphQL Casual Roundtable @ CRAFT Beer Market Toronto, Oct 7

Oct 7th 6:30PM: A event to gauge interest in GraphQL events in Toronto as well as get to know people and talk GraphQL!

Videos

Bad GraphQL takes, volume 5 / Jeff Auriemma

Put away your cardboard box of angry scalars and take apart this bad GraphQL take with me! Was this language really invented as a workaround for coordinating with backend developers?

Token battle: GraphQL schema vs OpenAPI spec / Jeff Auriemma

Same service, same objects, different token counts. See how OpenAPI specs stack up against GraphQL schemas when it comes to token counts!

Rigin Oommen on Federated GraphQL / Jeff Auriemma

Rigin Oommen, Principal Engineer at Red Hat, knows a thing or two about building a data platform spanning dozens of APIs. It was such a treat to hear how his team built an abstraction that married Salesforce with their federated graph using a thin middleware layer. A very cool case study from your friendly neighborhood GraphQL Ambassador :)

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