In-House Schema Registry - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Kamil KisielaThe Guild, Developer

When working with GraphQL, you might find yourself looking for tools to prevent breaking changes, or in case of Federation, compose GraphQL APIs. At this point, you may be tempted to build your own schema registry, from scratch. I’ve been there, done that, and now I’m going to tell you why I think it is a bad idea and what are the challenges you will most likely face, when developing your won solution.