A large enterprise running GraphQL Federation across 60+ subgraphs was taking 6-9 weeks to ship schema changes that required only ~6 days of actual implementation work. The bottleneck was coordination: finding owners, scheduling meetings, tracking approvals. After adopting WunderGraph Hub, a collaborative API design platform, the team gained a visual canvas of their entire graph, self-service proposal routing to the right owners, and automated governance checks. Schema change cycle time dropped from 6-8 weeks to 1-2 weeks, platform team coordination overhead fell from 60% to 15% of their time, and cross-team schema proposals increased 4x as the painful process barrier was removed.
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Scaling Federation to 60 SubgraphsThe Schema Change BottleneckWhat They TriedWhat Changed With HubResults After Three MonthsWhat the Architect SaidWhat We Learned About Federation at ScaleFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ)Sort: