GCA Best Practices
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This guide provides production-ready best practices for designing, implementing, and operating GCA endpoints at scale. Drawing from real-world Brightspot implementations, these recommendations help you build performant, secure, and maintainable GraphQL APIs that serve your content effectively while avoiding common pitfalls.
The best practices cover schema design principles (how to structure content types and view models for optimal API usability), performance optimization techniques (query efficiency, caching strategies, pagination approaches), security hardening (authentication, authorization, rate limiting, input validation), and versioning strategies (managing schema evolution without breaking clients). Whether you're building your first GCA endpoint or scaling an existing implementation, these guidelines help ensure your GraphQL API meets production requirements for reliability, performance, and security while remaining maintainable as your content model evolves.