https://chillicream.com/blog Announcements, deep dives, and how-tos from the ChilliCream GraphQL Platform team. en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-07-06-federated-event-streams https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-07-06-federated-event-streams Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib fusiongraphqlfederationsubscriptionsevent-streamsdotnet Federated Event Streams add broker-backed, resumable GraphQL subscriptions to Fusion 16.4, with stateless gateway scaling and client-owned resume cursors. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-24-graphqlconf-2026 https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-24-graphqlconf-2026 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Salome Ruckstuhl graphqlgraphqlconfcommunityaiagentsfederationfusion Notes from GraphQLConf 2026 and Working Group Day at Meta: AI agents meeting GraphQL schemas, the Composite Schema federation standard, and a community building what comes next. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-11-open-your-graphql-api-for-the-rest https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-11-open-your-graphql-api-for-the-rest Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tobias Tengler hotchocolatefusionnitroopenapirestapi The new OpenAPI adapter for Hot Chocolate and Fusion turns GraphQL operations into REST endpoints with shared auth, telemetry, and Swagger docs. No second API. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-06-newsletter-may-2026 https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-06-newsletter-may-2026 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn hotchocolatefusiongraphqldotnetaimcpopenapisemantic-introspectionrelease Hot Chocolate 16, Fusion 16, MCP, OpenAPI, Semantic Introspection, skillz, and more. Read the newsletter to learn about all the things we shipped in May and what comes next. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-05-introducing-skillz https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-06-05-introducing-skillz Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn dotnetreleaseproductsai skillz is a .NET CLI for installing, updating, and authoring Agent Skills, with dnx support for a one-shot workflow the way npx skills works in JavaScript. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-28-mcp-hotchocolate-fusion https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-28-mcp-hotchocolate-fusion Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Glen hotchocolatefusionnitromcpaillm Hot Chocolate and Fusion now ship an MCP adapter. Add two lines, author tools and prompts on disk, publish them with Nitro, and connect any MCP host to your GraphQL API. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-15-fusion-16 https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-15-fusion-16 Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib fusiongraphqlfederationdotnetaspnetcore Fusion 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. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-11-hot-chocolate-16 https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-05-11-hot-chocolate-16 Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqldotnetaspnetcore Hot Chocolate 16 brings a new type system, better scalar contracts, safer defaults, improved batching, semantic introspection, and a new GraphQL error mode. https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-04-22-semantic-introspection https://chillicream.com/blog/2026-04-22-semantic-introspection Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn hotchocolategraphqlaillmsemantic-introspection The agentic age of software brings new challenges for our APIs. Semantic Introspection makes GraphQL discoverable, scalable, and precise for LLMs. https://chillicream.com/blog/2025-03-17-open-telemetry-for-everyone https://chillicream.com/blog/2025-03-17-open-telemetry-for-everyone Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn nitroopen-telemetrydotnetaspnetcore https://chillicream.com/blog/2025-02-01-hot-chocolate-15 https://chillicream.com/blog/2025-02-01-hot-chocolate-15 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqldotnetaspnetcore https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-10-30-newsletter-october https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-10-30-newsletter-october Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn bananacakepopgraphqlhotchocolateworkshopscloudrelease Hot Chocolate 14 is released, BCP is now Nitro and there is a new DDD Workshop https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-10-07-introducing-nitro https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-10-07-introducing-nitro Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib graphqlnitroproductstelemetry https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-08-30-hot-chocolate-14 https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-08-30-hot-chocolate-14 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqldotnetaspnetcore https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-08-11-logging https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-08-11-logging Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn bananacakepopgraphqlhotchocolateworkshopscloudreleaseopen-telemetrylogging We just released logging in Banana Cake Pop. Checkout the blog post to learn more! https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-05-21-newsletter-may https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-05-21-newsletter-may Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn bananacakepopgraphqlhotchocolateworkshopscloudrelease We just released the Operation Builder, Telemetry, and a new Full Stack GraphQL Workshop. Checkout the blog post to learn more! https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-04-01-fullstack-workshop https://chillicream.com/blog/2024-04-01-fullstack-workshop Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Pascal Senn bananacakepopgraphqlhotchocolateworkshops We're excited to announce our new Full Stack GraphQL Workshop. Learn more about the workshop here! https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-08-15-fusion https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-08-15-fusion Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqlfederationfusionmicro-services Together, we'll explore the new GraphQL-Fusion, the open approach towards distributed GraphQL. https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-03-15-banana-cake-pop-graphql-apis https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-03-15-banana-cake-pop-graphql-apis Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib bananacakepopgraphqlidecloudrelease Together, we'll explore the new API feature coming with Banana Cake Pop 5 very soon. https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-02-08-new-in-hot-chocolate-13 https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-02-08-new-in-hot-chocolate-13 Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqldotnetaspnetcore https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-02-07-new-in-banana-cake-pop-4 https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-02-07-new-in-banana-cake-pop-4 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib bananacakepopgraphqlidecloudrelease New document on paste cURL or fetch, schema reload enhancements, new ways of closing tabs, menu enhancements/standardization, and UI polishing. https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-01-08-new-in-banana-cake-pop-3 https://chillicream.com/blog/2023-01-08-new-in-banana-cake-pop-3 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib bananacakepopgraphqlidecloudrelease Team Workspaces, Express Middleware, Progressive Web Application (PWA) Support, Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO), and many more features. https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-10-05-new-in-banana-cake-pop-2 https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-10-05-new-in-banana-cake-pop-2 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib bananacakepopgraphqlidecloudrelease Drag & drop support for documents, GraphQL defer/stream support, GraphQL operation extraction, and many further improvements. https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-09-01-new-in-banana-cake-pop-1 https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-09-01-new-in-banana-cake-pop-1 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT Rafael Staib bananacakepopgraphqlidecloudrelease Subscription protocol auto-detection, Workspace auto synchronization, a Status Bar, and many further improvements. https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-01-13-hot-chocolate-12-5 https://chillicream.com/blog/2022-01-13-hot-chocolate-12-5 Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Michael Staib hotchocolategraphqldotnetaspnetcore