Learn to fine-tune a default Router configuration for optimal performance in this hands-on workshop. Explore Router architecture, instrumentation for scaling, and benchmarking essentials. Discover features like timeout settings, query deduplication, and caching techniques to achieve significant performance gains.

What you'll learn

• An overview of the Router architecture, focusing on a performance point of view
• An overview of Router instrumentation for scaling (spans, samplings)
• What to test for in a benchmark
• Router features that can yield performance gains (timeout, query deduplication, query planner caching, entity caching)

Who this workshop is for

• Platform engineers and users of GraphOS Router.

Workshop resources

• Workshop slides PDF
• Workshop project repo

⚠️ Before the workshop...

If you have any questions or run into any issues with the workshop prep below, scroll to the end of this page to leave a comment or send us an email at summit@apollographql.com. We're here to help!

You will need the following:

You will also need:

Clone the repo locally

1. Clone the repo.

   git clone https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-summit-2024-performance-workshop

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2. Run docker compose up -d in a terminal.

3. Navigate to http://localhost:8080 to see the VSCode IDE in the browser.

   

Troubleshooting tips:

• Make sure nothing is running on port 3000.
• If you have a Redis instance running on port 6379, close it down.
• If you are getting this error: Error response from daemon: Head "https://ghcr.io/v2/apollographql/router/manifests/v1.55.0": denied: denied, then try logging out with docker logout ghcr.io.

You're all good, see you at the workshop!