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Ryan Grant

Why and how we ‘stringified’ your API gateway policies

By replacing highly typed configs with raw YAML/JSON, we’ve eliminated a major UX papercut and given you feature updates “for free.” Let’s see what’s changed.
December 12, 2024
5
min read
Tammy Bailey

Goodbye tunnels, hello agent endpoints

We've collapsed many flags into one for simplicity and unified naming conventions to flatten the learning curve. Join us in saying bye by updating your configs!
November 13, 2024
8
min read
Rachel Kolavo

How we built the Traffic Policy module and its actions

Traffic Policy is now the one true (and final!) way to shape your requests and responses. Let’s explore why we built it, how, and what it means for you.
October 23, 2024
15
min read
Christian Hollinger

How we built ngrok's data platform

At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.
September 26, 2024
15
min read
Scott M. Fulton III

ngrok in production: Not just for testing anymore

Transform how you handle production traffic with ngrok, enhancing security and management for your applications beyond just testing.
September 18, 2024
4
min read
Joel Hans

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
6
min read
Sam Richard

Visibility and limits: Keep track of your ngrok usage

Track your ngrok usage effectively with our dashboard, offering visibility into metrics like traffic, endpoints, and data transfers.
September 5, 2024
4
min read
Joel Hans

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
3
min read
Nijiko Yonskai

Traffic Policy Engine - What are CEL variables?

Harness the power of CEL variables in ngrok’s Traffic Policy Module to create dynamic, robust traffic filtering rules for your APIs.
July 1, 2024
4
min read
Christian Hollinger

How ngrok uses Dagster to run our data platform

Explore how ngrok leverages Dagster to orchestrate its data platform, ensuring efficient data management and insights generation.
November 16, 2023
12
min read
Sam Richard

Why does usage-based pricing work for developers?

Data shows that developers prefer to pay for infrastructure software via a consumption model.
November 16, 2023
3
min read
Alan Shreve

Introducing Pay-as-you-go pricing for ngrok

New from ngrok: Pay-as-you-go pricing. Optimize costs by paying just for active endpoints, perfect for delivering apps and APIs to production.
October 31, 2023
5
min read
Claire Shaw

ngrok partners: better together

The best tools fit seamlessly with your existing tools so you can build better apps faster. We've been hard at work and are excited to share our progress.
April 4, 2023
5
min read
Frederico Hakamine

ngrok December update: Dashboard SSO, Identity-Aware Ingress

Improved security with Dashboard SSO & Identity-Aware Ingress, new docs, community contributions to webhook security, and open-source firewall tools for go.
December 21, 2022
5
min read
Alan Shreve

ngrok Raises $50M for Ingress Without Infrastructure

Today, ngrok is growing faster than ever. To meet that increasing demand, we’re thrilled to announce our first-ever fundraising round of $50 million. We’ve raised this round to scale ngrok’s business across the board and to dramatically increase our investment in delivering new products for ngrok developers.
December 13, 2022
5
min read
Frederico Hakamine

ngrok October update: no-grok, OAuth, and webhooks for all

Agentless ngrok, new integrations, new OAuth providers, and signed agent. Launch your tunnels faster with IT and security approval.
November 1, 2022
5
min read
Claire Shaw

Announcing the ngrok Partnership Program 🤝

ngrok is stronger with integrations. With our new Partnership Program, we're working to integrate it with everything out of the box to make your life easier.
September 21, 2022
5
min read
Frederico Hakamine

ngrok August Update: webhooks, community & trust portal

We've been busy working on webhook verification, the trust & security portal, and even our community efforts with Slack. Read on for more details!
August 18, 2022
5
min read
Keith Casey

ngrok named by Will Reed "Top 100 Early Stage Companies to Work For"

We’re excited to announce ngrok has been named one of the Top 100 Early-Stage Companies to Work for in 2022 by executive search firm Will Reed.
August 3, 2022
3
min read
Arianna Willett

Announcing our SOC 2 Type 2 Report

We’re excited to announce that we have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 testing with no findings. Read more for more information.
July 20, 2022
3
min read
Russ Savage

Fighting Abuse on the ngrok Platform

While ngrok has made it easy to launch your fantastic new app online in one line, bad actors have also used this capability to launch their own attacks. Blocking and eliminating this malicious behavior is key to what we do and we've taken another step to protect users without breaking legitimate applications.
June 21, 2022
3
min read
Arianna Willett

Announcing the ngrok security and trust portal

The ngrok security and trust portal shares how we secure the ngrok service, our shared security model, how we handle data, and the steps we take to protect it.
May 24, 2022
4
min read
Alan Shreve

ngrok Security Disclosure, May 2022

Last week, we fixed a multi-tenancy bug in the ngrok dashboard’s caching layer. We have contacted all accounts affected by the bug directly.
May 18, 2022
3
min read
Keith Casey

The ngrok Cheat Sheet

How to run ngrok with Slack webhook authentication? GitHub OAuth? How to serve files? This cheat sheet shows the main commands!
May 12, 2022
3
min read
Keith Casey

Announcing the Next Generation of ngrok

ngrok Cloud Edge and Secure Tunnels are huge advancements but they aren't all we've been working on. ngrok is fully programmable, observable, and observable.
April 13, 2022
5
min read
Ben Sabrin

Announcing our SOC 2 Type 1 Report

We have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 examination establishing controls and safeguards within ngrok.
March 29, 2022
3
min read