Authored by: Maxwell Elliott and Connor Wybranowski Have you ever worked in a section of a codebase that is slow to build, has no ownership, no tests, and is edited constantly? If so, you have experienced a monolith. Monoliths are frustrating for developers, and they can have a profound effect on your organization; they slow down your team and your…
Tinder
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23 May 2025
28 Apr 2025
Authored by Thomas Yoon At Tinder, the quality of your profile photos is paramount. However, asking users to manually sift through their entire camera roll to select images that best represent them can be an overwhelming task. Users often spend a great deal of time searching for that one perfect shot, only to remain uncertain if their chosen photos will…
1 Apr 2025
Authored by: Igor Sokolov, Jessica Hickey, and Rongxin Du Elasticsearch is a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch powers the Recommendations (further referred to as Recs ), Trust & Safety capabilities and logging systems at Tinder. Over 90% of all our Recs comes from a…
26 Feb 2025
Authored by: Maxwell Elliott and Connor Wybranowski The Tinder iOS application is used in over 190 countries around the world. In order to operate in each of these countries, we need to provide a localized experience. A critical aspect of this localized experience is seeing the correct copy for the current user’s locale, whatever that may be. In practice, this…
29 Jan 2025
Authored By: Christopher Fuller At first glance, Tinder might seem like a simple application. After all, Tinder is best known for its iconic Swipe Right feature, a simple gesture that revolutionized how people express interest and connect. But when you look under the hood, there are a lot of complexities to consider when building the experience that our users know…
15 Nov 2024
Authored by: Edward Owens At Tinder, we run hundreds of microservices that all have unique network configurations, roles, metric rollups, and environmental variables (“env vars”). This myriad of configurations within the cloud makes it difficult for developers to know if the code they write will actually work once deployed. Developers were forced to push every change they made to a…
6 Sept 2024
Tinder API Style Guide — Part 1 Authored by: Nishant Mittal Advisory Group: Vijaya Vangapandu , Devin Thomson , Serge Vartanov and Greg Giacovelli API Style Guide Contributors: Nishant Mittal, Xing Wei and Felix Changoo Over the past decade, Tinder has experienced exponential user growth. Today, the app processes over 1 billion Likes and Nopes per day . This rapid…
18 Apr 2023
Authored by: Rojan Rijal, Tinder Security Labs | Johnny Nipper, Sr. Director | Tanner Emek, Sr Engineering Manager Summary In 2021, GitHub released support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitHub Actions (GHA), allowing developers to securely interact with their infrastructure resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other major cloud service providers. The OIDC support allows GHA jobs to retrieve…
9 Jan 2023
Author: Darragh Burke, Software Engineer II, Web Development at Tinder Tinder’s UI Opportunities: Wildfire When Tinder first launched in 2012, it pioneered a brand new user experience: the Swipe Right® and “Swipe Left”™ features. The app’s simplicity was a big part of what made it so appealing. An early version of Tinder We’ve emphasized building new features and moving fast…
7 Nov 2022
Authors: Rojan Rijal , Tinder Security Labs | Johnny Nipper, Product Security Manager | Tanner Emek, Engineering Manager Recently, Tinder Security Labs gave a talk at Recon Village @ Defcon 30 called “Scanning your way into internal systems via URLScan.” We went over examples of sensitive links indexed by URLScan that could be leveraged to gain access into corporate systems.…