How Tinder built the API Gateway ?— Insightful Notes
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7 min readOct 27, 2023
Tinder API Gateway (TAG) is one of the critical frameworks at Tinder that solves the need to expose public APIs and enforce strict authorization and security rules. It’s engineered to meet Tinder’s custom need to fit perfectly in its current cloud infrastructure and can be scaled as required and maintained without any external support.
What we will cover here…
- Introduction
- Challenges Before TAG
- Existing API Gateway Solutions
- Let’s Explore TAG
- A Deeper Look Inside TAG
- API Gateway at Tinder Today
Introduction
- They have more than 500 microservices at Tinder, which talk to each other for different data needs using a service mesh under the hood. All external-facing APIs are hosted on TAG.
- They needed a gateway solution that could centralize all these services, giving them more control from maintenance to deployment.
- The custom gateway also helps ensure that…
