What is tyk built with?

Q: Which repos have a stack like tyk's?

The ones that share most of its stack: infiniflow/ragflow, traefik/traefik, and harness/harness.

tyk is a Go repo built with net/http, Gorilla, github.com/justinas/alice, and github.com/valyala/fasthttp. It signs people in with github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, and golang.org/x/oauth2, uses AI through Model Context Protocol, validates its data with github.com/getkin/kin-openapi, github.com/go-playground/validator/v10, and github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonschema, is tested with redismock, github.com/stretchr/testify, Uber, Google, github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go, and 6 more, deploys with github.com/sirupsen/logrus, github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go, OpenTelemetry, github.com/felixge/httpsnoop, github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go, and 2 more, and uses go-redis, go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver, sarama, github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2, Redis, and 4 more. It has 382,341 written lines, with 574 test files.

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The card says what it's built with. Its whole map opens it up: every part of the code and how it connects to the rest.

Backend

The base 2

Gorilla14 files
net/http

Data 7

github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v23 files
Redis2 files · internal/redis/redis.go, line 8
github.com/go-redsync/redsync/v41 file
MongoDB1 file · go.mod, line 132
go-redis
go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver
sarama

Sign-in 3

AI 1

Model Context Protocol

Services 2

MCP3 files · gateway/mcp_context.go, line 10
New Relic1 file · internal/service/newrelic/newrelic.go, line 7

Support

The base 2

github.com/justinas/alice2 files
github.com/valyala/fasthttp1 file

Validation 3

github.com/go-playground/validator/v103 files
github.com/getkin/kin-openapi24 files
github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonschema1 file

Testing 11

github.com/stretchr/testify417 files
Uber19 files
Google4 files
github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go3 files
github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang2 files
RabbitMQ2 files
github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/modules/kafka1 file
github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/modules/nats1 file
NATS.io1 file
redismock
github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v22 files

Deploy 7

github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go3 files
OpenTelemetry3 files
github.com/sirupsen/logrus112 files
github.com/felixge/httpsnoop1 file
github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go1 file
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc1 file
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/runtime1 file

Tools 1

github.com/alecthomas/kingpin/v24 files

Other 36

github.com/samber/lo10 files
github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go6 files
HashiCorp5 files
github.com/gorilla/websocket3 files
github.com/tidwall/gjson3 files
github.com/miekg/dns2 files
github.com/coder/websocket1 file
github.com/goccy/go-yaml1 file
github.com/gofrs/uuid1 file
github.com/golang/protobuf1 file
github.com/google/uuid1 file
github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v31 file

24 more

go.uber.org/automaxprocs1 file
github.com/buger/jsonparser10 files
github.com/spf13/afero5 files
golang.org/x/sync5 files
github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure4 files
golang.org/x/net4 files
golang.org/x/crypto3 files
golang.org/x/exp3 files
github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v42 files
github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig2 files
github.com/pires/go-proxyproto2 files
gopkg.in/yaml.v32 files
github.com/akutz/memconn1 file
github.com/dop251/goja1 file
github.com/goccy/go-json1 file
github.com/klauspost/compress1 file
github.com/nsf/jsondiff1 file
github.com/oschwald/maxminddb-golang1 file
github.com/paulbellamy/ratecounter1 file
github.com/robertkrimen/otto1 file
github.com/rs/cors1 file
github.com/shirou/gopsutil1 file
gopkg.in/yaml.v21 file
protobuf

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Frequently asked questions

What language is tyk written in?

tyk is written in Go, with 382,341 written lines.

What framework does tyk use?

tyk is built with net/http, Gorilla, github.com/justinas/alice, and github.com/valyala/fasthttp.

What does tyk sign people in with?

tyk signs people in with github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, and golang.org/x/oauth2.

Does tyk use AI?

Yes. tyk uses AI through Model Context Protocol.

What services does tyk use?

tyk uses go-redis, go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver, sarama, github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2, Redis, github.com/go-redsync/redsync/v4, MongoDB, MCP, and New Relic.

Does tyk have tests?

Yes. tyk has 574 test files and is tested with redismock, github.com/stretchr/testify, Uber, Google, github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go, github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang, github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2, RabbitMQ, github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/modules/kafka, github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/modules/nats, and NATS.io.

Which repos have a stack like tyk's?

The ones that share most of its stack:infiniflow/ragflow traefik/traefik harness/harness