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Airbnb introduces Viaduct, a data-oriented service mesh built on GraphQL that addresses the complexity of large-scale microservices dependency graphs.
•Traditional SOA relies on procedure-oriented service meshes (like Istio/Linkerd) where consumers must explicitly depend on individual services; Viaduct abstracts these dependencies by organizing around data instead
•Viaduct uses a single central GraphQL schema defining types, queries, mutations, and interfaces that span all microservices, allowing consumers to navigate related data without knowing which service provides it
•A "central schema" approach enables deriving both service APIs and database schemas from one source, reducing the multi-team coordination overhead typically required for schema changes
•Stateless derived-data and BFF services are replaced by serverless "derived fields" computed via cloud functions operating on the graph, reducing operational overhead
•Built on graphql-java, Viaduct supports field-level data obse
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