How does Stellate improve GraphQL API performance?
Stellate improves GraphQL API performance by leveraging global edge caching across 102 worldwide locations. This reduces latency, delivers faster response times, and minimizes the load on origin servers by caching GraphQL queries at the edge, resulting in up to 90% faster API responses.
What security features does Stellate offer for GraphQL APIs?
Stellate provides enterprise-grade security for GraphQL APIs, including built-in rate limiting to prevent abuse and service degradation, support for persisted queries, and real-time threat monitoring. These features protect APIs from malicious queries, traffic spikes, and escalating infrastructure costs.
Can Stellate help reduce infrastructure costs?
Yes, Stellate significantly reduces infrastructure costs by minimizing origin traffic and server load through its GraphQL Edge Caching. This can lead to up to a 99% reduction in origin traffic and an average of 30% infrastructure cost reduction, lowering operational overhead and improving efficiency.
What kind of insights and metrics does Stellate provide?
Stellate offers real-time observability into GraphQL API usage, performance, and errors. Users can gain deep insights into traffic on all queries, types, and operations, and monitor origin response times for each query and mutation to identify optimization opportunities.
How does Partial Query Caching work?
Partial Query Caching automatically splits GraphQL queries to maximize what is cacheable. This means Stellate can cache parts of a query that are static or frequently requested, while only fetching the dynamic or uncached parts from the origin, optimizing performance and stability.
Is Stellate compliant with industry standards?
Stellate is AICPA SOC 2 Type II compliant and GDPR Ready, ensuring that it meets stringent security and privacy standards for businesses handling sensitive data.