Case Study: Apollo GraphQL scales documentation quality and speed with Gatsby and Netlify

Apollo GraphQL manages 75-100 docs changes per month with Gatsby

Apollo GraphQL, a company providing data management tools for developers, initially faced challenges with updating and scaling their interactive, open-source documentation efficiently. Their Developer Experience team sought a solution to improve iteration speed, reliability, and community contribution processes for their docs, which were hosted on a legacy system. They turned to the vendor Gatsby and the platform Netlify to address these needs.

The solution involved migrating their documentation and numerous other web properties to Netlify. This allowed Apollo to utilize features like Deploy Previews for vetting changes and a unified Gatsby theme to streamline management across over 50 sites. The vendor Netlify provided the reliable infrastructure for this new architecture, enabling the team to manage 75-100 documentation changes per month. This resulted in a significant increase in quality, a friction-free contribution experience for their open-source community, and empowered a small team to make an outsized impact across the entire company's web presence.

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