Empowering 1M+ users with seamless, secure APIs — AMAAN Indonesia relies on Tyk.
950 APIs managed
Centralized API management streamlines operations and enhances scalability.
230M+ monthly API calls
High-performance gateway ensures reliability under heavy traffic.
4,000 field agents supported
Real-time data synchronization empowers agents across six provinces.
Region
APAC
Sector
Banking & Financial Services
Product
Self-Managed
At a glance
Company
Dynamic start-up AMAAN Indonesia needed an API gateway as part of its microservices architecture.
amaan.co.id
Key features used
AMAAN Indonesia provides a sharia digital platform that empowers female micro-entrepreneurs and their families in six provinces of Indonesia.
The company’s core products went live in March 2021, and the business has grown rapidly. It now employs 200 staff, including a 90-strong technical team encompassing 50 developers. The Tyk API Gateway has been at the front and centre of that growth.
The problem
The need for an API gateway was driven by AMAAN Indonesia’s microservices architecture. AMAAN Indonesia’s Cloud Architect, Hannoto Yang, explains how critical an API gateway is to operations:
“Tyk is front and centre of everything we do. Quite simply, the company would not be able to operate, and the product would not exist, without Tyk.”
AMAAN Indonesia’s platform is available in the Play Store. From there, some 4,000 field agents distribute it across six Indonesian provinces.
The company has three sorts of clients, all of whom consume its APIs:
- The web back office, which deals with client-side programming.
- 4,000 field agents who have installed the AMAAN Indonesia app from the Play Store
- The company has 1.08 million end users – and counting!
The role of Tyk
AMAAN Indonesia uses Tyk for central API management for its internal and external APIs.
With 950 APIs, the company needed a reliable authentication and authorisation solution to underpin its digital transformation. AMAAN Indonesia is also taking advantage of the analytics capabilities that Tyk provides, examining everything from response times to the number of API calls to gain a deeper understanding of its operations.
To facilitate this, AMAAN Indonesia uses an on-premise installation of Tyk with one Tyk API Gateway, two nodes in production (high availability, active-active), and one gateway with two nodes in development. Tyk is deployed on Alibaba Cloud’s Jakarta sites. Currently, API traffic stands at around 230 million calls per month, with a peak API traffic rate of 330 per second.
The solution
Development speed has been the most notable benefit that AMAAN Indonesia has experienced. Using Tyk, the company has increased the team’s productivity by enabling developers to define and create APIs easily. And for a start-up, speed to market is always critical. Cloud Architect Hannoto observes:
“Speed to market has a major impact from a business point of view. Tyk provides the bridge that connects everything together between the back end and the client side, enabling us to develop and deliver as fast as possible. It’s an excellent product, very stable, and so reliable because it’s really fast.”
The team was impressed with how easy it was to implement Tyk. They used Terraform code with Docker to set everything up, then connected to Redis and MongoDB. Hannoto Yang recalls:
“We built the code and the installation processes fairly fast. It took less than a week because we used the Terraform code. Then the setup for the API definition took around one or two months because we wanted to find our pattern.”
Tyk’s extensive documentation supports the company experiment and explores additional functionality as it scales. Tyk’s support team has also been available to work with AMAAN Indonesia while implementing its API management solution and beyond.
The future
AMAAN Indonesia’s rapid growth has seen the company scale to over one million users during its first 18 months of operations, running in six of Indonesia’s provinces. Over the next three years, the company plans to roll out its services to more provinces (Indonesia is home to 37 in total), building up to 10 million end users. Tyk will be there every step of the way to support the business as it scales.
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