Name: Authorization in Federated GraphQL - Tom Houlé, Grafbase
Start: 2025-09-08T16:15:00+0100
End: 2025-09-08T16:25:00+0100

Monday, 8 September - Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
In-Person Only | Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Monday September 8, 2025 16:15 - 16:25 BST

IJzaal

Adopting GraphQL federation creates a convenient place in your infrastructure to make authorization decisions:

- It comes early in the request lifecycle, before any subgraph.
- It has access to the whole client request, as well as the entirety of the federated graph.
- Authorization can still be the responsibility of the subgraph teams, or a cross cutting concern.

This talk is about leveraging the special position of the federation gateway for authorization.

We'll cover the directives federation offers for authorization out of the box: `@authenticated`, `@requiresScopes`, `@policy`. To cover a more advanced use case, we'll explore how to implement fine-grained authorization taking advantage of data from your federated graph by leveraging extensions in the open source Grafbase Gateway.

Speakers

Tom Houlé

Engineer, Grafbase

Tom's professional life has gravitated towards GraphQL and Rust, schemas and databases. After authoring the first Rust GraphQL client library, recent years have taken him from the database schema management space at Prisma to GraphQL federation at Grafbase. In his free time, he enjoys... Read More →

Monday September 8, 2025 16:15 - 16:25 BST
IJzaal

GraphQL in Production - Federation and distributed systems

Audience Level Intermediate

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