--- title: How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1) description: Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-1--gsyr-3igr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1) | daily.dev og:description: Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-1--gsyr-3igr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GSyR-3IGr.png og:image:alt: How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1) **[Netflix TechBlog](https://daily.dev/sources/netflix)** · 12 min read · 27 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Netflix is known for its loosely coupled and highly scalable microservice architecture. Independent services allow for evolving at different paces and scaling independently. But they add complexity for use cases that span multiple services. Rather than exposing 100s of microservices to UI developers, Netflix offers a unified API aggregation layer at the edge. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@berkmann18** · 1 upvotes > That was a nice case study on GraphQL Federation, with some really useful models. **@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes > This article tells the evolution of their UI facing architecture. 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