Case Study: Sysco accelerates market expansion and cuts development costs with Apollo GraphQL

Sysco cuts development costs by 20% with Apollo GraphQL

Sysco, a global leader in food service distribution, faced challenges with its e-commerce platform due to maintaining separate procedural code bases for web and mobile. This approach nearly doubled development resources, created platform discrepancies, and blocked scalable growth for new market expansions like Canada. They partnered with Apollo GraphQL to address these API orchestration issues.

Apollo GraphQL implemented a declarative, graph-based API orchestration solution using domain-specific subgraphs. This centralized orchestration logic and replaced the procedural code. The results included an accelerated expansion into the Canadian market, a 20% reduction in development costs, and a consistent customer experience across all platforms. Apollo's solution also improved productivity for Sysco's 100 developers, who now work across eight focused domain services.

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