The Q2 2024 Product Roundup introduced several new features, including Hygraph Studio transitioning to Early Availability, Custom App Permissions, Automatic Query Splitting for optimized GraphQL performance, and Hygraph's availability on the AWS Marketplace. For more details, visit the product roundup.
Hygraph Studio is the new content management interface designed to streamline workflows with an intuitive UI and powerful features. As of July 3rd, 2024, Studio is in Early Availability and is the default for free and self-serve users. Key improvements include localization, content duplication, custom views, and groups. Enterprise users can choose between Studio and Classic. Learn more at Studio in EA.
Automatic Query Splitting is a feature that optimizes complex GraphQL queries containing union fields or modular components by splitting them into simpler queries. This results in faster API responses and improved application performance, with no manual changes required. For other complex queries, manual splitting is recommended. See the API guide for details.
Custom App Permissions allow users to define who can install their apps—only themselves, selected users, or the public. This feature enhances security, especially for enterprises with strict requirements, and supports granular API permissions for user data. For more, see the App Framework documentation.
The imgix app enables seamless integration of visual media assets, allowing content editors to add and process images and videos directly within Hygraph. This improves creative freedom, speeds up webpage delivery, and simplifies asset management. Learn more at imgix integration.
Hygraph Accelerators are prebuilt solutions focused on specific use cases, such as eCommerce, designed to simplify the transition to modular architecture and speed up time to market. Users can start with an accelerator, customize it, and evolve their solution, reducing initial setup time by up to 80%. Explore the Accelerators Marketplace.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For full details, visit the pricing page.
Hygraph provides a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and features like localization, asset management, and custom app permissions. Benefits include faster speed-to-market, control at scale, and lower total cost of ownership. Learn more at Hygraph Features.
Hygraph supports integrations with platforms such as Netlify, Vercel, BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling, Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot, Ninetailed, AltText.ai, Adminix, and Plasmic. For a full list, see Hygraph Integrations.
Yes, Hygraph offers a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. Learn more at the API Reference.
Hygraph emphasizes rapid content distribution and responsiveness, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. Optimized delivery reduces bounce rates and increases conversions. For more, see this guide.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments. For details, visit Hygraph Security Features.
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. Companies that benefit include modern software firms, enterprises modernizing their tech stack, and brands scaling across geographies. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf
Hygraph's case studies span industries such as food and beverage, consumer electronics, automotive, healthcare, travel and hospitality, media and publishing, eCommerce, SaaS, marketplace, education technology, and wellness and fitness. See case studies for examples.
Yes. Komax achieved 3X faster time to market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. More stories are available here.
Customers can expect time-saving through streamlined workflows, ease of use, faster speed-to-market, and enhanced customer experience via scalable content delivery. These benefits help modernize tech stacks and improve operational efficiency. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf
Hygraph addresses operational pains (developer reliance, legacy tech stacks, global team conflicts, clunky UX), financial pains (high costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache and OpenID integration issues). For details, see product page.
Developers benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined query management. Content creators and project managers gain independence from developers and a user-friendly interface. Business stakeholders see lower operational costs, easier scalability, and faster speed-to-market. Solutions are tailored for each persona. More info at product page.
KPIs include time saved on content updates, system uptime, consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. For more, see CMS KPIs blog.
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation, including guides for Studio and Classic interfaces, API reference, and developer recipes.
Hygraph is designed for quick onboarding, even for non-technical users. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. Users can sign up for a free account and access documentation, tutorials, and onboarding guides. Learn more at Hygraph Documentation.
Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance. All users have access to documentation, video tutorials, and a community Slack channel. For more, visit Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph offers onboarding sessions for enterprise customers, 24/7 support, training resources like video tutorials, documentation, webinars, and Customer Success Managers for expert guidance. More info at Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and cost efficiency. It enables impactful digital experiences and reduces operational costs. For more, see the product page.
Hygraph is trusted by companies such as Sennheiser, Holidaycheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See case studies for more.
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive interface and ease of setup, noting that even non-technical users can start using it right away. The UI is described as logical and user-friendly for both technical and non-technical teams. Source: Customer Feedback.
Written by Shahan
on Jul 18, 2024We’re excited to share some fantastic updates this quarter!
Discover the all-new Studio, designed to revolutionize your content workflow with an intuitive interface and powerful new features!
We launched Studio in beta earlier this year and have received positive feedback and valuable suggestions from our user community.
As of July 3rd, Studio has transitioned from beta to Early Availability, becoming the default content management interface for our free and self-serve users. Enterprise users have the option to choose between Studio or Classic, while our CSMs plan the migration steps for you.
With the launch in EA, we also added the following features to Studio:
Learn more about Studio in EA →
Building on our robust app framework launched last year, we're excited to introduce Custom App Permissions, allowing you to tailor app access and enhance security.
This feature enables enterprises with strict security requirements to build custom applications and extend Hygraph capabilities.
You can choose permissions for who can install your app: only you, selected users, or the public.
Within API permissions, you can now also choose permissions for user data.
We have updated our App SDK and recommend switching to the latest version.
npm i @hygraph/app-sdk
Read the documentation on our app framework → Read our guide on migrating from UI extensions →
imgix is your go-to visual media platform for creating, transforming, and optimizing images and videos. It enables the processing and delivery of images and videos on-the-fly to any device within milliseconds for faster webpages, creative freedom and simpler development.
Now, seamlessly integrate imgix assets directly within Hygraph for an enhanced digital experience.
The new app allows content editors to add assets from imgix sources directly from the Hygraph interface. This way, you can seamlessly include assets from imgix and benefit from its processing services in your digital applications.
Moreover, you can also connect imgix to your Hygraph Asset Management System, and benefit from imgix’s processing and delivery capabilities.
Check out the imgix integration on our marketplace →
Experience lightning-fast API responses with Automatic Query Splitting, a major improvement where we optimize complex GraphQL queries that contain union fields or modular components.
These queries are split automatically, which means no changes are required on your end. Hence, you can use union fields conveniently without having to worry about the performance aspects of it.
However, since this automatic splitting only applies to queries with union fields or modular components, other complex queries won’t be automatically split.
To improve performance for other types of complex GraphQL queries, we recommend following our guide on how to split them efficiently.
Managing the complexity of GraphQL (GQL) queries is crucial for efficient data retrieval and optimal performance. Our new Automatic Query Splitting tackles this challenge head-on, ensuring your applications run smoothly.
In the context of GQL, “query complexity” refers to the computational resources needed to fulfill a query.
The complexity of a query increases with the number of fields and the depth of the query.
For example, if a query retrieves a list of posts and each post has multiple comments, the complexity of the query increases with each nested comment.
Query complexity over a certain threshold increases the API’s response times, negatively affecting your app’s performance.
To prevent this, our new mechanism now automatically splits complex queries that contain union fields or nested components, into multiple simpler queries, without you having to do this manually.
If you’re using complex queries in your application, then you’ll now notice a significant improvement in performance.
For complex queries with multiple scalar fields, you can further optimize API performance by manually splitting them.
You can manually optimize by limiting the depth of your queries, which means splitting a query with multiple fields or nested queries into separate queries, fetching only the necessary fields or using pagination.
To manually manage GQL complexity of your queries, we recommend going through our step-by-step guide with examples.
We’re thrilled to announce that Hygraph is now available on the AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for AWS customers to deploy and scale Hygraph.
Explore Hygraph on the AWS Marketplace →
Kickstart your projects with our new prebuilt accelerators, designed to simplify your transition to a modular architecture and speed up your time to market.
Accelerators are a prebuilt solution focused on a specific use case, such as an eCommerce shop, that can make your transition to modular architecture easier and more digestible. You can start with it, reduce the time to market, then customize and evolve. Instead of starting from 0, you start from 80%. And you have the full flexibility to recompose this later on.
Get started with our first accelerator, our composable commerce starter from Datrycs.
With the Studio in EA, the new Studio docs will open up by default when you land on our documentation page.
The new revamped documentation features comprehensive guides for Hygraph Studio to help you make the most of our latest features.
For documentation on Hygraph Classic, you’ll now need to go to our Classic Docs.
To help you model your content efficiently, we have introduced a new Hygraph Recipes section in the docs.
Hygraph Recipes is a collection of developer resources that can help you discover how to combine different field types to create schema elements based on your use-case.
With Hygraph’s current Content Preview capabilities, editors can open a preview link in a new tab or window to view how the final content will look.
We will soon release Live Previews, where editors can preview content and edit simultaneously in a split-screen format.
We will offer a range of capabilities based on your subscription plan to empower you with greater control over your backups. These include automated backups that allow you to roll back to earlier project versions if something goes wrong.
We will introduce settings that allow you to conditionally show additional fields based on a boolean or dropdown field.
To automatically schedule content for publishing, we will soon release Content Scheduling for Hygraph Studio.
We will soon introduce the more intuitive grid view to our Asset Management System to help you quickly find relevant assets.
The new Hygraph Asset Management System will soon be available for existing projects as well. Although low effort, some migration tasks will need action from your end. Stay tuned for detailed guidelines and steps to migrate seamlessly.
This year, we proudly participated in MACH THREE in New York City, engaging in insightful discussions with industry leaders about MACH architectures and digital transformation.
Caryn Jervis, Head of Partnerships, Matthew Weil, Senior Account Executive, and Jorge Yanes, Senior Partner Manager, met with our customers and partners for in-depth conversations about MACH architectures and digital transformation.
Caryn Jervis, also moderated the MACH 3 panel EnlightenHER #6: How to earn your seat at the table. Alongside panelists Irina Botea and Valerie Kontor, she discussed insights and strategies for women trying to get their voices heard. They touched upon challenges, advice, and the importance of mentorships in helping women advance into leadership roles.
We are proud to sponsor VercelShip 2024, the premier event for developers and tech enthusiasts. Our colleagues, Jon Gibbs and Issam S. were there, connecting over insightful discussions with our partners and customers.
We’ve had some great updates this quarter! Hygraph Studio officially transitioned from beta to Early Availability, we're now available on the AWS Marketplace, and we’ve introduced features like Automatic Query Splitting and Custom App Permissions.
Moreover, we have exciting new features lined up for next quarter, and we can't wait to share them with you soon. Stay tuned!
Stay connected and informed by joining our vibrant community on Slack. Be the first to know about the latest Hygraph updates and events, and share your feedback with us.
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