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January 2023 also brought simplified Catalog Service integration through API Mesh. If you were using Catalog Service for a headless or composable storefront, you were managing separate API credentials, your own rate limiting and your own data transformation logic. That work moves into the gateway.
What Catalog Service is
Catalog Service is Adobe's GraphQL endpoint for product catalogues, built for headless commerce. It exposes product detail, categories, search, filtering and inventory data, and it responds far faster than querying the monolithic Adobe Commerce (Magento) GraphQL API directly. It scales independently, absorbs traffic spikes, and connects to in-store search and personalisation.
What changed
Reaching Catalog Service used to mean separate credentials, manual data transformation, your own rate limiting and separate monitoring. API Mesh now sits in front of it as a single gateway: declarative configuration, transformations applied at the gateway, built-in rate limiting and caching, and one place to manage authentication.
That gives you one view of all API traffic, consistent error handling, schema stitching, and request and response logging for debugging and compliance auditing.
For storefront developers it is quieter work. Fewer authentication concerns in the client, faster queries through gateway-level caching, error messages that mean something to a frontend, and rate limiting you can see rather than discover.
Moving over
Adobe published step-by-step guidance. Define the endpoint in your mesh configuration, write resolvers if the responses need transforming, test outside production, then point storefront clients at the mesh endpoint. Most migrations take less than a week with zero downtime.
What this means for you
Catalog Service is now a first-class citizen in API Mesh rather than a separate thing bolted to the side of one. If you are running a composable storefront, it is one integration you no longer have to own — and one fewer set of credentials to rotate.