What are the benefits of migrating to the Apollo Router?

If your federated graph uses the @apollo/gateway library, we strongly recommend moving to the Apollo Router for many benefits:

• Performance improvements: The Apollo Router is written in Rust, which offers substantial performance advantages over Node.js. The Apollo Router provides reduced variance in request latency, a reduced attack surface area, fewer memory bugs, and dramatically improved energy efficiency. Learn more about why the Apollo Router was written in Rust on the Apollo blog.
• High configurability: Modify your router's default behavior with a YAML config file, and even define custom logic with Rhai scripts.
• Advanced GraphOS Enterprise features: The Apollo Router provides expanded security, performance, and customization features for organizations with a GraphOS Enterprise plan.

Customers that move to the Apollo Router in production and enable these features report impressive results. The following table illustrates the yield of a production graph at scale after moving to the Apollo Router.