# How Tinder Secures Its 500+ Microservices

DevFeed: [How Tinder Secures Its 500+ Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-tinder-secures-its-500-microservices-17980.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-tinder-secures-its-500-microservices>)

Author: Richard Oliver Bray

Published: 2025-01-08T13:40:48Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hacking Scale by Better Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hacking-scale-by-better-stack.md>)

Topics: [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Amazon API Gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-api-gateway.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Routing (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/routing.md>)

Tags: [api-gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-gateway.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [mesh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mesh.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why Tinder's externally accessible services created security and maintenance challenges, and why the team built a customized API gateway to provide consistent session management, scalable configuration, and integration with its Envoy service mesh.

## Source excerpt

Tinder's highly customised solution that fixed their microservice security chaos