# Michael Staib, ChilliCream author

> Michael is the author of Hot Chocolate and works on GraphQL server performance, Fusion, and distributed GraphQL standards.

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Michael is the author of Hot Chocolate and works on GraphQL server performance, Fusion, and distributed GraphQL standards.

- [](https://github.com/michaelstaib "GitHub")
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-staib-31519571 "LinkedIn")
- [](https://x.com/michael%5Fstaib "X")

## Published articles

- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2026-07-12-fusion-16-5/header.png)ReleaseJul 2026Fusion 16.5: The Gateway for EveryoneBuilt with C# and .NET, Fusion 16.5 is the only gateway supporting both federation standards, achieves 100% Apollo Federation compliance, and leads in real-world performance.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-07-12-fusion-16-5)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2026-07-06-federated-event-streams/header.png)ReleaseJul 2026Introducing Federated Event Streams for Fusion 16.4Federated Event Streams add broker-backed, resumable GraphQL subscriptions to Fusion 16.4, with stateless gateway scaling and client-owned resume cursors.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-07-06-federated-event-streams)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2026-05-15-fusion-16/header.png)ReleaseMay 2026What's new in Fusion 16Fusion 16 is a GraphQL federation gateway built on ASP.NET Core, featuring Aspire-driven composition, incremental delivery, Semantic Introspection, OpenAPI adapters, and connectors for REST and gRPC.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-15-fusion-16)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2026-05-11-hot-chocolate-16/header.png)ReleaseMay 2026What's new for Hot Chocolate 16Hot Chocolate 16 brings a new type system, better scalar contracts, safer defaults, improved batching, semantic introspection, and a new GraphQL error mode.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-11-hot-chocolate-16)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2025-02-01-hot-chocolate-15/hot-chocolate-15.png)ReleaseFeb 2025What's new for Hot Chocolate 15Hot Chocolate 15 updates the type system and supported .NET versions, and adds new projection, filtering, sorting, pagination, and DataLoader capabilities.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2025-02-01-hot-chocolate-15)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2024-08-30-hot-chocolate-14/hot-chocolate-14.png)ReleaseAug 2024What's new for Hot Chocolate 14Hot Chocolate 14 introduces simpler dependency injection, query inspection, source-generated DataLoaders, pagination improvements, and stronger security.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-08-30-hot-chocolate-14)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2023-08-15-fusion/fusion-banner.png)Aug 2023GraphQL-Fusion: An open approach towards distributed GraphQLTogether, we'll explore the new GraphQL-Fusion, the open approach towards distributed GraphQL.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-08-15-fusion)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2023-02-08-new-in-hot-chocolate-13/hot-chocolate-13-banner.png)ReleaseFeb 2023What's new for Hot Chocolate 13Hot Chocolate 13 improves GraphQL over HTTP, developer experience, authorization, subscriptions, data access, performance, and Strawberry Shake.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-02-08-new-in-hot-chocolate-13)
- [![](https://chillicream.com/images/blog/2022-01-13-hot-chocolate-12-5/hot-chocolate-12-5-banner.png)ReleaseJan 2022Pushing ahead with Hot Chocolate 12.5Hot Chocolate 12.5 adds Banana Cake Pop themes, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, oneOf input objects, and client-controlled nullability.Read](https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-01-13-hot-chocolate-12-5)