---
title: "How Tinder Built Their Own API Gateway"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-tinder-built-their-own-api-gateway-ka-bh-tgj
source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/tinder-built-api-gateway
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2022-11-12T23:03:18.539Z
updated: 2022-11-12T23:03:18.536Z
tags: ["backend", "cicd", "slack", "api-gateway", "envoy"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 108
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# How Tinder Built Their Own API Gateway

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 9 min read · 108 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Tinder is the most popular dating app in the world with over 75 million monthly active users. The app is owned by the Match Group, a conglomerate that also owns Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge and over 40 other dating apps. Tinder’s backend consists of over 500 microservices, which the components are - Routes.

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**@yyyyyy4ever** · 1 upvotes

> What is this drawing tool? Anyone?

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> esse curti

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> Using Java's Spring!

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Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#slack](https://daily.dev/tags/slack), [#api-gateway](https://daily.dev/tags/api-gateway), [#envoy](https://daily.dev/tags/envoy)

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