Discover Tyk’s powerful microservices API gateway

Operationalizing microservices isn’t easy. Building in API security, observability and governance can quickly bloat your services and drain developers’ time while making your product stack costly to maintain and scale. The solution? Abstract operational complexities away with Tyk’s microservices API Gateway.

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Comprehensive microservices solution

  • Abstract complexities away so your API microservices can focus on their business logic.
  • Apply security logic and governance logic at the gateway level.
  • Easily implement observability and integrate with other services.
  • Deploy Tyk flexibly – on our cloud, your infrastructure or whatever suits you best.
  • Manage REST, GraphQL, gPRC and other APIs through Tyk Gateway with ease.

Top-tier security

Safeguard your microservices with robust authentication and authorization at the gateway level. Apply security policies to defend against attacks and unauthorized access. Tyk provides security specific to REST, GraphQL, async APIs and more, so you can keep your microservices safe.

Robust governance

Tyk makes it easy for you to manage access control, versioning and standardization. We remove the governance headaches on your journey to superior regulatory compliance.

In-depth observability

Get to the heart of an issue and troubleshoot fast with end-to-end tracing for microservices, including native support for OpenTelemetry. Use it to bring resolution times down, along with associated costs.

Human Managed had loosely coupled microservices that it needed to tie together with a hugely customizable API management platform, allowing event-driven services. Enter Tyk. “Easy to deploy, easy to use, lightweight and really fast. The performance of Tyk is really impressive.”

Yip Je Sum
| Microbuilder, Human Managed

Fully featured microservices API gateway

Whether you’re already fully invested in microservices or ready to break down your monolith bit by bit, you can use Tyk API Gateway as a reverse proxy into your services. Tyk’s microservices gateway makes it easy to operationalize everything efficiently – all in a lightweight way that doesn’t bloat your services and makes it easy to scale.

Tyk is open standards native, so you can work with OpenAPI Specification, OAuth, Open Policy Agent and OpenTelemetry with ease, enjoying everything from easier integrations to faster, more efficient troubleshooting. All while the gateway takes care of security and governance, so your microservices can focus on their business logic.

Reap the rewards of standardization

Do microservices right

Tyk API Gateway serves as an umbrella providing security, governance and observability, while making integration easy. You simply add microservices to it for smoother deployments and easier, more cost-effective scaling, without bloating and complicating the services themselves.

Partner with Tyk for:
  • Up to 45x faster release cycles
  • 25% less time on average to deployment
  • API gateway 10x faster than competitors

Microservices operationalization, your way

Tyk flexes to suit you. Our universal API management solution provides one platform for all protocols – REST, GraphQL, async APIs and more. You can use it with your microservices right out-of-the-box or extend it with custom plug-ins written in your preferred language. And you can deploy however you like, from cloud to bare metal.

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Supporting microservices innovation

“With Tyk, our experimental product innovation was rolled out much faster. Tyk out of the box is super simple to get started and deploy, and we receive very prompt responses from the Tyk team.”

Hien Tu
| Lead Architect, Chợ Tốt

Chợ Tốt is Vietnam’s top C2C marketplace, with 1 billion views and 10 million users per month. It is moving to a full microservices architecture, with service discovery and CI/CD. Tyk is central to this, serving 10 million daily API requests with response times of under 30ms and enabling rapid product innovation.Read more about this case study.

FAQs

  • How does Tyk's microservices API gateway reduce operational complexity?

    Tyk’s gateway abstracts operational complexities away from your microservices by handling cross-cutting concerns like security, governance, and observability at the gateway level. This approach allows your microservices to focus solely on their business logic, reducing bloat and complexity within each service. The gateway serves as a reverse proxy into your services, providing a consistent layer for access and operational concerns while keeping your microservices lightweight and easier to maintain.

  • What security capabilities does Tyk provide for microservices architectures?

    Tyk safeguards your microservices with robust authentication and authorization implemented at the API gateway level, eliminating the need to build these capabilities into each service. The platform allows you to apply consistent security policies to defend against attacks and unauthorized access across your entire microservices ecosystem. Tyk provides protocol-specific security features for REST, GraphQL, async APIs, and more, ensuring comprehensive protection tailored to each API type.

  • How does Tyk help with governance in a microservices environment?

    Tyk simplifies governance by providing centralized management of access control, versioning, and standardization across all your microservices. This approach removes governance headaches on your journey to regulatory compliance by ensuring consistent policies and controls, regardless of how many microservices you have or how they’re implemented. The gateway is the enforcement point for your governance requirements, maintaining consistency across your architecture.

  • What observability features does Tyk offer for microservices troubleshooting?

    Tyk provides in-depth observability with end-to-end tracing for microservices, including native support for OpenTelemetry. These capabilities allow you to get to the heart of issues and troubleshoot fast, reducing resolution times and associated costs. The distributed tracing follows requests as they move through your microservices, giving you visibility into the entire transaction path and making it easier and faster to identify bottlenecks or failures proactively.

  • Can Tyk handle different API protocols within a microservices architecture?

    Yes, Tyk offers a universal API management solution that works with multiple protocols including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and asynchronous APIs. This multi-protocol support allows you to manage all your microservices through a single gateway, regardless of the API technologies they use. The platform provides protocol-specific features and optimizations while maintaining a consistent approach to security, governance, and observability, so you achieve the ideal balance of control and creativity.

  • How flexible is Tyk's deployment model for our microservices infrastructure?

    Tyk provides complete deployment flexibility, allowing you to run the gateway on Tyk’s cloud, your own infrastructure, or in a hybrid environment – whatever suits your needs best. This flexibility extends to containerized environments, with support for Kubernetes and other orchestration platforms. The gateway can be deployed alongside your microservices, adapting to your specific infrastructure requirements. Tyk’s support for open standards supports maximum interoperability while avoiding vendor lock-in.

  • Can Tyk help us transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices?

    Yes, Tyk supports organizations at any stage of their microservices journey. If you’re breaking down a monolith bit by bit, you can use the Tyk API Gateway as a reverse proxy into your services, gradually migrating functionality to microservices while maintaining a consistent interface for consumers. The gateway provides a stable façade while you evolve your architecture behind it, making the transition smoother and less disruptive to your customers.

  • How does Tyk integrate with our existing microservices ecosystem?

    Tyk is open standards native, working seamlessly with the OpenAPI Specification, OAuth, Open Policy Agent, and OpenTelemetry. This standards-based approach ensures easier integration with your existing (and future) microservices ecosystem and toolchain. Additionally, you can extend Tyk with custom plugins written in your preferred programming language, allowing you to adapt the gateway to your specific integration requirements.

  • What performance benefits can we expect from Tyk's microservices gateway?

    Tyk’s API gateway is 10x faster than competitors and contributes to up to 45x faster release cycles, with 25% less time to deployment on average. The gateway can handle high-volume microservices traffic with minimal latency, delivering stellar performance underpinned by Tyk’s observability features supporting reliability.

  • How does Tyk's gateway approach impact our ability to scale microservices?

    Tyk’s approach of abstracting operational concerns to the gateway level makes it easier and more cost-effective to scale your microservices. By removing the need to implement security, governance, and observability within each service, you reduce the resource footprint of individual microservices and simplify scaling requirements. The gateway is designed to be lightweight and performant, ensuring it doesn’t become a bottleneck as your microservices ecosystem grows.

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