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Clarify the role of the router (#223)
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Stephen Barlow authored Dec 1, 2021
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> ⚠️ **The Apollo Router is in public pre-alpha.** Until it is generally available, do not use it in business-critical graphs. [Learn about release stages.](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/resources/release-stages/#open-source-release-stages)
The **Apollo Router** is a configurable, high-performance **graph router** for a [federated graph](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/):
The **Apollo Router** is a configurable, high-performance **graph router** for a federated graph. It slots into any existing [Apollo Federation](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/) architecture (v1 or v2), replacing your Node.js gateway that uses the `@apollo/gateway` library:

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class clients secondary;
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The Apollo Router is [implemented in Rust](https://github.com/apollographql/router), which provides [performance benefits](https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/backend/apollo-router-our-graphql-federation-runtime-in-rust/) over the TypeScript Apollo Gateway.
The Apollo Router is [implemented in Rust](https://github.com/apollographql/router), which provides [performance benefits](https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/backend/apollo-router-our-graphql-federation-runtime-in-rust/) over Node.js.

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