How AI is applied across API Evangelist and APIs.io. Read my AI disclosure →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

Demand Control in Hive Router

calendar_today June 15, 2026 person Dotan Simha domain the-guild-dev

Hive Router now protects federated graphs from expensive operations with Demand Control, a cost-based security layer that assigns numeric costs to operations and rejects those exceeding configured budgets. It implements the IBM GraphQL Cost Specification with directives like @cost and @listSize, estimating operation expense before execution, and supports supergraph-wide limits (up to 5000 cost units) as well as per-subgraph budgets (as low as 200 units for expensive services).

open_in_new Read original post