---
title: "How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-1--gsyr-3igr
source_url: https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-1-ae3557c187e2
type: article
source: "Netflix TechBlog"
published: 2020-11-12T07:00:49.854Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["graphql"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 27
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# 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.

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## 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. Highly recommended!

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