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Tyk API Management
Company blog · tyk.io/blog · on HN as LeonidBugaevwebprogramming
Tyk API Management is the company blog at tyk.io, writing about web and programming. Since 2014, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 97 times, most often “Tyk: Full-Featured API Gateway”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tyk's site for its API gateway documentation, a performance-tuning post, and feature overviews of API gateways. Most comments mentioning the site are job ads or product mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Our API and AI Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an API and AI Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard
Most-linked posts?
- Tyk: Full-Featured API Gateway5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-02-01
- /4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
- Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
- The Tyk Kubernetes Ingress Controller2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-13
- Migrating from a Monolith to APIs and Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-08
- Show HN: Tyk – Open Source API Gateway written in Golang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-13
- /about/team/mid-go-developer/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-01
- Tyk AI Gateway – Robust AI Governance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
- [ANN] Tyk Open Source API Gateway v2.0 Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-04
What Hacker News says?
Tyk.io | Mid-level Go Developer | London, Singapore | remote | Full-time We’re looking for a Go Developer that can work with our open-source engineering team and cloud edge to deliver the next generation of the Tyk API Management platform. Interested? Find it more and apply here: https://tyk.io/about/team/mid-go-developer/ Here's what you will be working on: - The open source API Gateway - Our multi-data-center dist…
Comment linking /about/team/mid-go-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted REST was never about CRUD as a story · 323 points
HN discussionTyk.io | Mid-level Go Developer | London, Singapore | REMOTE | Full-time We're looking for a Go Developer that can work with our open-source engineering team and cloud edge to deliver the next generation of the Tyk platform. Interested? Get in touch with us at talent@tyk.io Here's what you will be working on: - The open source API Gateway - Our multi-data-center distributed API platform - The next-get cloud infrastr…
Comment linking /about/team/mid-go-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects as a story · 138 points
HN discussionTyk.io | Go engineers | REMOTE (CET +-4 hours) We are building best API management platform, and our main product is open-source API Gateway https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk Tyk is doing really good and scaling our team. We are looking for mid and senior level Go engineer. We are building a fully distributed company, and care most about people happiness. Pls apply here https://tyk.io/about/team/go-developer/
Comment linking /about/team/go-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Show HN: Tyk – Open Source API Gateway written in Golang as a story · 45 points
HN discussionTyk | Full Time | REMOTE (see tags) At Tyk.io we are building the best API management solution. We really value work-life balance and equal opportunities to everyone. I can't imagine the better team to work with. We are looking for a lot of roles at the moment. - Consulting Engineer - Americas - Min/Senior Go Devs - EMEA - Product Owner - EMEA - UX Designer - EMEA - Customer Education Lead - EMEA - Strategic Account…
Comment linking /current-vacancies/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Universal Data Graph: Not Your Average GraphQL Server as a story · 16 points
HN discussionTyk.io | REMOTE (CET tz +- 4 hours) | Full time Here at Tyk.io we are building open-source API management platform used by thousands of users. We are looking for Mid and Senior Golang engineers! Apply here https://tyk.io/about/team/go-developer/
Comment linking /about/team/go-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Submitted Supercharging Tyk API Management with our first ever round of funding as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt appears to be open source and you can download and run it on your own hardware: https://tyk.io/v1.7/download/
Comment linking /v1.7/download/
on “Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends”Submitted Performance-Tuning Your Tyk API Gateway as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI think AWS is going after the Parse / Heroku market here, the combination of Lambda and this gateway make it more suited for that kind of implementation, they are missing out on the larger features that enterprise needs - the blog post doesn't really go into detail on how SOAP conversion works, and I doubt it's a cakewalk. It's in legacy API services that places like Mashery and Apigee make all their real money, an…
Comment linking /
on “Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends”Submitted The Tyk Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAgreed that it's moving down the value chain, many other open source projects out there doing similar things. There's also Tyk Open Source API Gateway ( https://tyk.io ) and API Umbrella ( http://apiumbrella.io/ ), and APIAxle, though that's been around for a while now. Also API market is intended to grow to $660 million in US by 2020 and over a billion worldwide ( http://blogs.forrester.com/michael_yamnitsky/15-06-…
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on “Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends”Submitted Dynamically extend and patch Tyk using native Go plugins as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou could always use an open source gateway like Tyk ( https://tyk.io ) or API Umbrella (full disclosure: I run Tyk.io, and this news is... disheartening).
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on “Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends”Submitted Tyk.io launches micro-grant programme for side projects as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTyk | https://tyk.io | Site Reliability Engineer | Remote (Europe timezone) | Full Time With the launch of our new Tyk Cloud platform we’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to manage, maintain, improve and provide support on our new platform. You will be curious by nature, always looking for ways to improve, as we will look to you for new ideas, solutions and metrics on how we can improve the platform. You wi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Tyk API Gateway goes Turing complete with new looping feature as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYeah, worth mentioning https://tyk.io too. Also, do not forget about Quotas which usually comes along with Rate limits. Modern API gateways can handle so many stuff for you and help with API scaling.
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on “Scaling your API with rate limiters”Submitted Structuring the AI Supply Chain as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHarsh but fair!? We're listening, feedback has been passed to the team who look after https://tyk.io/ .
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on “REST was never about CRUD”Submitted Micro-grants for side projects. Second funding round as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHarsh criticism Johnny! But we'll take it on board, feedback has been passed to the https://tyk.io/ team, there is certainly an opportunity to adjust proportions here. As a matter of interest, which blog/article page layout do you really rate?
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on “REST was never about CRUD”Submitted The Tyk Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTyk is looking for a Developer Advocate (Remote, EU timezones) Tyk is an API Management platform, that is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. To view the role and apply: https://tyk.io/jobs/developer-evangelist/
Comment linking /jobs/developer-evangelist/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Submitted Why boring is best for your API Strategy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDepending on what that private container is serving up, an API gateway might work better. Tyk is one that's written in golang. It has a rest API and hot reload, so it should be able to handle your use case of dynamically allocated ports. http://tyk.io
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on “Caddy 0.10 Released”Submitted How to Implement Single Sign on (SSO) with Tyk and Okta as a story · 7 points
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