Production GraphQL with Netflix DGS — a 7-part blog series

[petrmac]

We've been running DGS in production on Spring Boot (WebFlux) for over a year now and decided to write up everything we learned along the way. The result is a 7-part series covering the full journey from schema design to production observability:

1. Schema-First GraphQL with Netflix DGS — the DGS + Spring for GraphQL merger, schema organization, code generation, and the three-layer type system
2. Data Loaders & Field Resolvers — solving N+1 queries
3. Securing Your GraphQL API — authentication & authorization with Spring Security (live now)
4. Real-Time & Reactive Patterns — subscriptions, WebSockets, SSE
5. Testing & Scaling — DgsQueryExecutor, integration tests, caching
6. Type-Safe GraphQL on the Frontend
7. Observability — metrics, tracing, and performance optimization

New parts publish weekly. The series focuses on practical patterns from a real codebase — not just "hello world" examples.

Feedback welcome — happy to dive deeper into any topic that's useful for the community.

[petrmac]

A new blog post published in the series: 2. Data Loaders & Field Resolvers

[petrmac]

A new blog post in the series: 3. Securing Your GraphQL API with Netflix DGS