Netflix is well known for its use of, and contribution to, open source technologies including Spring and Spring boot. Most recently, the streaming giant utilized Spring Boot’s GraphQL integration to build Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework. The DGS framework allows developers to create GraphQL services though a type-safe API layer that allows more efficient data fetching and manipulation and reduced over-fetching and under-fetching issues. By offloading certain functionalities to Spring for GraphQL, DGS was able to minimize its footprint, significantly reduces in-network bandwidth usage, bolstered the efficiency of data-loading processes, and enhanced overall user experience through faster and more responsive applications.

Spring is renowned for its comprehensive frameworks, providing a rich toolkit and extensive functionalities that streamline the development of enterprise-level applications. Netflix stands out as a prominent contributor to Spring, leveraging its capabilities to enhance efficiency. The advantages of using Spring for GraphQL stem from a shared foundation, minimizing maintenance efforts and fostering collaboration between the DGS and Spring for GraphQL communities.

By using Spring for GraphQL’s integration, Netflix has unlocked the potential to serve billions of personalized, data-rich user interfaces across the globe. This combination offers a powerful, scalable, and highly customizable way to build APIs.

Why Platform Engineers Should Be Excited about Spring and Tanzu

The Spring for GraphQL and Tanzu platform provides platform engineering with an adaptable and efficient mechanism to build and operate scalable microservices. It's a game-changer, facilitating seamless data fetching, streamlined operations, reduced latency, and enhanced performance.

Spring is a robust framework that has changed the way enterprise Java developers work - making them more productive and secure by default. At the same time, Tanzu provides a modern unified application development and delivery platform that allows enterprise organizations to accelerate their application dev and delivery process securely and at scale.  Together, they offer a powerful toolset for platform engineers.

In a continuously evolving industry, integrating technologies like Spring, Tanzu, and GraphQL enables you to explore new heights of innovation..

This year’s SpringOne conference - colocated with VMware Explore, will have plenty of talks that examine the most recent innovation from the Spring community as well as workshops and technical sessions geared to the platform engineering discipline. Hope you can join us! 

In the meantime you can take your Spring skills to the next level by checking out Spring Academy and downloading this whitepaper: A Practical Approach to Getting Started with Platform Engineering.   

About the Author

Michelle is a global product line marketing engineer for all things Spring. An accidental technologist who started with selling caller ID, she has worked in and around marketing and sales for a few decades launching new products, working with B2C, B2D, and B2B. Her first line of code was a few years back and she has been working with developers ever since. Michelle lives in the Pittsburgh region with her husband and two children. She loves to cook, entertain, lodge, travel, and binge-watch really bad TV. If you make her laugh, she will be your number one fan.

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