Case Study: Booking.com ships 40% faster with Apollo GraphQL

Booking.com ships 40% faster with Apollo GraphQL

Booking.com, a leading digital travel company, faced challenges with an aging monolithic architecture and REST-based backends that led to inconsistent customer experiences, high maintenance costs, and an inability to manage technical debt. This structure made it difficult to clean up unused code and to confidently run their high volume of experiments across all platforms.

By implementing the Apollo Supergraph Platform from Apollo GraphQL, Booking.com decoupled its frontend and backend development. The solution provided a federated graph that gave teams autonomy and visibility into API usage. As a result, Apollo helped Booking.com ship features 40% faster, increase system resilience with schema checks, and confidently retire technical debt by identifying unused fields.

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