Joel Hans
Joel Hans is a Senior Developer Educator. Away from blog posts and demo apps, you might find him mountain biking, writing fiction, or digging holes in his yard.
The 3 big problems holding back API gateway observability
Deployment complexity, environment constraints, and poor debugging tools create more barriers to API gateway maturity than they do benefits.
December 18, 2024
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Create a self-service app and API delivery platform with composable Traffic Policy
ngrok lets you manipulate traffic at multiple moments in the request lifecycle, allowing API developers to compose, not compromise, powerful API gateway rules.
December 10, 2024
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Manage traffic on a region-aware API gateway—without the networking
Build a region-aware API gateway with ngrok's Traffic Policy. Route requests, manage failover, and enforce regional compliance with simple YAML configs.
December 4, 2024
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Debug traffic flows with cloud endpoints and custom responses
By using the custom-response Traffic Policy action and a public endpoint, you can quickly develop new policy rules without standing up a whole infrastructure.
November 12, 2024
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Drop-in API gateway policy examples for manipulating headers
With these ready-for-prod Traffic Policy rules, you can boost your security, give customers SLA metrics, and create geo-aware APIs in a few lines of YAML.
October 17, 2024
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How nuanced rate limiting transforms your API and business
Master the dynamics of API rate limiting with ngrok’s gateway: a key to enhanced security, efficiency, and user satisfaction.
October 3, 2024
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5
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CliffsNotes your voicemails with WebSockets, Twilio, and OpenAI
Explore ngrok's WebSocket capabilities with a demo crafted for Office Hours, integrating with OpenAI’s API to create a secure phone call summarization app.
October 2, 2024
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Deploy advanced HTTP traffic shaping with request variables and CEL
Explore ngrok's request variables and Common Expression Language to create flexible, powerful HTTP traffic shaping rules for your API endpoints.
September 12, 2024
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6
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Introducing Office Hours: Learn about and build on ngrok together
Join ngrok's Office Hours: A monthly livestream for developers to learn, ask questions, and explore ngrok's capabilities beyond secure tunneling.
September 11, 2024
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Battle against search and AI bots on your ngrok endpoints
Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.
August 28, 2024
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8
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Set up a reverse proxy with AWS and ngrok
Discover what a reverse proxy is and why they're essential for public-facing services, apps, and APIs, and learn how to set up a reverse proxy on AWS with ngrok
August 21, 2024
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12
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Easier DNS configuration with subdomains and zones—and a switch
Using branded domains with ngrok? It’s never been easier or more error-proof to establish proper DNS zones for delegation and namespacing.
August 19, 2024
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Developer's guide: Manage traffic with CEL expressions and connection variables
Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.
August 14, 2024
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5
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How to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) with ngrok’s API gateway
Mutual TLS (mTLS) with an API gateway can help you meet compliance requirements in industries that demand high security for data transmission.
August 13, 2024
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APIOps and an API gateway: Get your development groove back
Discover how GitOps and APIOps can revolutionize your API gateway workflow, offering version control, easy deployment, and developer sanity with ngrok.
August 6, 2024
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10
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How ngrok’s GSLB elevates Linode-hosted SaaS performance and resilience
Discover how ngrok’s Global Server Load Balancing also brings multi-cloud and smoother application delivery to SaaS hosted globally on Linode VMs or k8s clusters.
July 17, 2024
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10
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API gateway gallery: Drop-in API policy management examples
With these 10 YAML-configured examples, you can mix-and-match your way to better security, availability, and observability of your freshest APIs.
May 30, 2024
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Secure your API with JWTs and ngrok’s API Gateway
Secure your APIs with JWT authentication using ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway for enhanced security and seamless integration.
May 16, 2024
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7
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Developer experience in deployed API gateways: Kong vs. ngrok
Discover the simplicity of ngrok's API gateway and compare it to Kong for enabling developer productivity, ease of use, and rapid deployment capabilities.
May 14, 2024
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Build your developer-defined "golden path" with the Kubernetes Gateway API and ngrok
The Kubernetes Gateway API and ngrok’s Cloud put power back into developers’ hands while abstracting away all the complexity of secure Kubernetes networking.
April 25, 2024
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AI meets privacy: ngrok's secure bridge to customer data
Explore how ngrok enhances AI development by enabling secure, direct access to customer data, ensuring data integrity and privacy.
March 13, 2024
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13
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Unlock remote AI power with ngrok: A game-changer for developers
Deploy a powerful remote server for LLM development and dev-friendly AI workflow in just a few steps with ngrok, Ollama, and a GPU-accelerated virtual machine.
January 25, 2024
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Build an API in Next.js and deploy with Rancher
See how to build and deploy a Next.js application in Kubernetes with Rancher
November 29, 2023
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