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Our team is excited to be transforming API delivery with our developer-defined API gateways. This new API gateway product brings you the best of both worlds: the power and flexibility of deployable gateways and the simplicity of cloud-based tools. ngrok’s developer-defined API gateway eliminates operational friction, accelerating release velocity and innovation. https://lnkd.in/ghfnYUYP

Our friend David over at Rawkode Academy just dropped a concise *and* comprehensive video on filtering and action on traffic using ngrok's Traffic Policy. Follow along as he ships an IP restriction action, adds expressions to apply the action to only specific requests, then layers in some region-aware functionality in just a few lines of YAML. 👏 https://lnkd.in/g3QPwtyZ

"How did ngrok change throughout 2024? What got shipped? What's all this about endpoints?!?" Instead of answering these questions from 10,000 feet, our CEO Alan Shreve shows all the primitives and processes live—complete with demos of cloud+internal endpoints, Traffic Policy, and our Go SDK. Then jumps straight into your first look at ngrok's technical roadmap for 2025. Check out the recording of our latest Office Hours livestream on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gUnRC42P

Block Tor traffic from your API gateway with one expression: 𝚘𝚗_𝚑𝚝𝚝𝚙_𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝:   - 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜:       - "!('𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚡𝚢.𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜.𝚝𝚘𝚛' 𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗.𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝_𝚒𝚙.𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜)" ... That's it—we update the lists of IPs automatically so you never have to worry about manual intervention again. Discover what else you can do with ngrok's new IP Intelligence: https://lnkd.in/gJNDK8gc

🔴 Go live with ngrok’s CEO, Alan Shreve, for a technical deep-dive into what we’ve built into 2024 and the future of product development in 2025! Alan is joining Office Hours to: - Demo our latest primitives, like internal and cloud endpoints. - Show off how to implement traffic patterns that would otherwise take enormous lift, like multi-cloud failover, in just a few lines of YAML. - Walk through new features we’re scoping now, like endpoint pools. - Take time to answer your questions live! Join us at 10:00am Pacific on January 15, 2025! Register for the livestream: https://lnkd.in/gqUq-4rq

Why move circuit breaking to your API gateway with our new circuit breaker action? - Prevent cascading failures across microservices - Save CPU cycles on requests likely to fail - Coordinate with rate limiting and DDoS protection - Zero instrumentation needed in your services - Simple YAML config, no plugins required See examples and get started in just a few minutes 👉 https://lnkd.in/gn8S2pYC

... and we're starting of 2025 with a "basic" but foundational new Traffic Policy action: Basic Auth! With this new action, which extends the Basic Auth module you might have used in the past, you can protect your endpoints behind username:password prompts in just a few lines of YAML. You can chain Basic Auth checks with other actions, like custom responses or logging, and evaluate failed authentication attempts in ngrok's built-in Traffic Inspector. https://lnkd.in/gHsxh-CF

Debugging API gateway issues locally shouldn't need: - Custom bash scripts - Fragile Docker workloads - A full copy of your production stack - Push to branch + CI/CD run Yet most teams are stuck with exactly this setup. Shouldn't there be a better approach works from localhost to production? https://lnkd.in/gevRCk-D

Why we moved Traffic Policy from highly typed (and delicate) configurations to YAML strings: ✅ Eliminate the complexity of cascading SDK and agent updates ✅ Help us roll out new Traffic Policy actions faster ✅ Keep backward compatibility (aka stop breaking your Go/JS/Rust/Python code!) ✅ Help you separate config from application code The result? A more maintainable API gateway that's easier to update. Full details: https://lnkd.in/gfeSTK3d

The fourth session of our Office Hours livestream 📹 is now available to watch at your leisure on YouTube! In this session, we: 👉 Chatted with "Stacks," Staff Infrastructure Engineer, about how he uses the K8s operator in his homelab and in ngrok's production systems. 👉 Toured through our amazing new Traffic Policy documentation. 👉 Demoed one way to route traffic to APIs on remote network appliances in a secure and scalable way. https://lnkd.in/graTQPZz