Joel Hans

Joel Hans is a Senior Developer Educator at ngrok. He has plenty of strong thoughts about documentation, developer education, developer marketing, and more.

Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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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min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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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min read
Joel Hans
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
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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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min read
Joel Hans
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
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min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Developer's guide: Manage traffic with CEL expressions and connection variables

Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers intelligently filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.
August 14, 2024
5
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
10
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
10
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
10
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
7
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
10
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
5
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
13
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

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
18
min read