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Resources Requirements

Defining the right amount of resources for your GraphQL gateway is crucial for maintaining performance and reliability. This guide will help you understand how to allocate resources effectively.

CPU and Memory

The primary resources you need to allocate for your gateway are CPU and memory. These resources ensure that your gateway runs efficiently.

For most applications, you can start with the following default values:

  • CPU: 1
  • Memory: 1GB

These values are suitable for most applications. However, you may need to adjust them based on your application’s specific requirements. For instance, if your application experiences high traffic, you may need to increase the CPU and memory allocations.

For production environments with high traffic, we recommend the following values:

  • CPU: 2
  • Memory: 2-4GB

Environment Variables

Set NODE_ENV to production to ensure your gateway runs in production mode. This setting also enables parallelism optimizations that can enhance performance.

By default, the gateway uses the available parallelism (number of CPUs, based on NodeJS’s os.availableParallelism) to determine the number of workers to spawn.

You can set the FORK environment variable to specify the number of workers you want to spawn. For example, to spawn 12 workers, set FORK=12.

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