Case Study: Delivery Hero accelerates UX experiments with Apollo GraphQL

Delivery Hero accelerates UX experiments in 1 week with Apollo GraphQL

Delivery Hero, a global food and grocery delivery platform operating brands like Foodpanda, faced a challenge with slow mobile app release cycles that hindered UX experimentation and created duplication across its many markets. To accelerate innovation, they first built an in-house server-driven UI system, but it was too heavy and created new bottlenecks. They turned to Apollo GraphQL to find a better solution.

Using Apollo's Federation and Router, Apollo GraphQL helped Delivery Hero implement a two-layer supergraph architecture that separates UI presentation from business logic. This solution reduced the design cycle time from three months to one week, cut API payload size from 80 fields to just 4, and improved render times by 100 milliseconds. The results enabled real-time experimentation and accelerated innovation across all of Delivery Hero's global brands.

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