Monday.com's engineering team solved API chaos at scale by implementing Federated GraphQL as a centralized API engine. The solution replaces fragmented REST endpoints with a unified supergraph, eliminating boilerplate for versioning, limits, documentation, and authorization. Producers focus only on business logic while consumers get a single endpoint with dynamic field selection, consistent standards, and automatic type generation. The architecture includes CI/CD schema publishing, API wrappers for common functionality, and a central router for observability and rate limiting.
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