GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis

E35 - GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis

Published: September 10, 2025

Duration: 43:07

**UPDATE** - Apollo GraphQL has kindly offered us a few free passes to join them at the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco, October 6-8, 2025. If you are interested in going, the code is: PodcastSummit25

What if your API layer could help you ship faster today and make tomorrow’s AI workflows safer and easier to build?

Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis explains how GraphQL became a practical standard for unifying messy backends, why declarative schemas and strong types are the “bedrock” for agentic systems, and where MCP fits when you want agents to call business data safely...