Advanced GraphQL for Developers: Optimize & Scale Modern API

You'll learn to run GraphQL at scale. Module one covers query performance, caching including Apollo Client strategies, cursor-based pagination, throttling and rate limiting, error formatting, logging and Apollo Studio monitoring. Module two covers schema federation - Apollo Federation vs. schema stitching, subgraphs and a gateway, extending types across subgraphs, debugging, and breaking a monolith into federated services. Module three covers GraphQL with Angular, Next.js and Vue, MongoDB, REST wrappers and DataLoader, and closes with final project guidance and career pathways.

Coursera lists this as an advanced-level course. You should be comfortable building GraphQL APIs - schemas, resolvers, queries and mutations - and with JavaScript. The first two courses of the specialization cover exactly that groundwork.

The current enrollment options and price for your region are shown on the Coursera course page. The course is included with a Coursera Plus subscription, and Coursera's financial aid is available for eligible learners. Enrollment also includes the whole GraphQL Mastery specialization track.

About 10 hours of total learning across 3 modules of roughly 3 hours each, with 34 video lessons, 3 readings and 12 assignments. Coursera estimates 1 week at 10 hours a week. It's fully self-paced - deadlines flex around your schedule.

Each module has three practice quizzes and a one-hour graded quiz at the end - 12 assignments in all. A reading in each module goes further into performance optimization, schema federation and microservices, and GraphQL integrations.

Yes - this page is Board Infinity's own overview of our course. Enrollment, payment, video lessons, grading and the certificate all happen on Coursera, where the course is hosted. Think of this page as the detailed tour before you head there.

Yes. Completing the graded quizzes earns you a shareable certificate from Board Infinity, issued through Coursera with its own verification link. You can add it to your LinkedIn profile, resume or CV, and the same completed work counts toward the full specialization certificate.

It supports senior GraphQL developer, API architect, back-end, platform and integration engineering roles - anywhere APIs need to scale, federate or connect to many clients and data sources. The final module also covers career pathways with GraphQL.

Two ways. The certificate goes in your LinkedIn Licenses & Certifications section via Coursera's one-click add. Just as valuable is naming what you know: a line like “Scaled GraphQL APIs with caching, cursor pagination and rate limiting, and federated a monolith with Apollo Federation” gives interviewers something concrete to ask about.

No. It's an independent educational resource developed by Board Infinity, and it isn't official preparation material from the GraphQL Foundation.

This is the final course of the specialization. If you haven't taken them, the first two are GraphQL Fundamentals – Design APIs, Schema, Frontend Integration (~10 hours) and GraphQL API Development: Schema Design, Security & Deployment (~10 hours). Completing all three earns the specialization certificate.