Case Study: PayPal accelerates digital payments and modernizes its platform with Apollo GraphQL

Modernizing Digital Payments With a Graph at Paypal

PayPal partnered with Apollo GraphQL to modernize its digital payments platform and improve the user experience. As PayPal scaled to hundreds of millions of users across 200 markets, its legacy REST and BFF architecture was slowing developers down and creating performance issues, making it harder to innovate quickly.

Using the Apollo Graph Platform, PayPal built a data graph on top of its existing REST services and used Apollo Graph Manager to govern, monitor, and protect it. The approach accelerated GraphQL adoption, enabled more efficient development, and helped Power over 50 products with a single graph; PayPal also validated a new Checkout experience with just three developers in six weeks.

PayPal

Mark Stuart

Senior Manager of Web Platform