Tony’s Pizza looks simple from the outside. A customer orders a pizza, the pizza is prepared, and a driver delivers it. Unfortunately, though, Tony’s has spent 20 years acquiring regional pizza chains, loyalty programs, delivery services, and online ordering platforms. Answering the question of “Where is my pizza?” is not so simple anymore, requiring data from multiple systems and databases with no clear ownership.
This is exactly the kind of problem the GraphQL semantic layer is uniquely positioned to solve. It allows customers, orders, stores, rewards, and other business concepts to remain stable even as the underlying system, databases, and