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Solutions Architecture2023
DEPLOYMENT STATUS: SUCCESS

ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE API

High-throughput GraphQL API wrapping distributed data services for a Fortune 500 retailer.

Lighthouse Score

78

Uptime

99.98%

Avg Latency

25ms

Status

LIVE

01

PROJECT OVERVIEW

High-throughput GraphQL API wrapping distributed data services for a Fortune 500 retailer.

This project showcases our expertise in solutions architecture, delivering a robust solution that exceeds industry standards for performance, reliability, and maintainability.

02

THE CHALLENGE

PROBLEM

A Fortune 500 retailer's data was siloed across 9 systems (Snowflake, Oracle, 3 SaaS tools) with 14 different teams writing bespoke ETL scripts — each inconsistent and unmaintained.

OUTCOME

Built a unified GraphQL federation layer that exposed all 9 sources as one schema, cutting new report development from weeks to hours and eliminating 40,000 lines of ETL scripts.

03

ARCHITECTURE & CODE

federation-gateway.ts
TypeScript
1// Apollo Federation gateway — merges 9 data source subgraphs
2const gateway = new ApolloGateway({
3 supergraphSdl: new IntrospectAndCompose({
4 subgraphs: dataSources.map((ds) => ({
5 name: ds.name,
6 url: ds.endpoint,
7 })),
8 }),
9 buildService({ url }) {
10 // Inject caller identity + request tracing into each subgraph
11 return new AuthenticatedDataSource({
12 url,
13 willSendRequest({ request, context }) {
14 request.http?.headers.set(
15 "x-caller-id",
16 context.userId ?? "anonymous"
17 );
18 request.http?.headers.set("x-trace-id", context.traceId);
19 },
20 });
21 },
22});
04

DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE

ci/cd — deploy log
7 PASSED
BUILD COMPLETE
01▸ Validating GraphQL schema federation...
02✓ Schema composition valid — 9 subgraphs merged
03✓ Breaking change detection — 0 breaking changes
04▸ Running resolver integration tests...
05✓ 196 resolver tests passed — all data sources mocked
06▸ Running load test (simulated 500 concurrent queries)...
07✓ P50: 18ms · P95: 42ms · P99: 61ms — within SLA
08▸ Deploying to AWS API Gateway + Lambda...
09✓ Lambda cold start < 200ms (Provisioned Concurrency active)
10✓ CloudWatch alarms configured — error rate threshold: 0.1%
11✓ DataDog APM traces verified across all 9 subgraphs
05

PERFORMANCE AUDIT

lighthouse — performance report
78
LIGHTHOUSE PERFORMANCE
ACCEPTABLE — OPTIMISE BEFORE PROD
CORE WEB VITALS
LCP — Largest Contentful PaintTime until the largest element is rendered
2.8sIMPROVE
FID — First Input DelayResponsiveness to first user interaction
30msGOOD
CLS — Cumulative Layout ShiftVisual stability during page load
0.07GOOD
TTFB — Time to First ByteServer response time to first byte
240msIMPROVE
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Node.jsGraphQLSnowflakeAWS API Gateway
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