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Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.

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.

Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers intelligently filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.

Enhance your traffic policy management with ngrok's CEL Interpolation, enabling dynamic, adaptable configurations for APIs.

Use our new guides to self-serve site-to-site connectivity to APIs, databases, and device service APIs in external networks.

Explore how ngrok enables AI and ML by simplifying access to customer data, allowing for seamless, secure, and efficient development of new LLMs.

This blog post provides a guide on securing a Node.js CRUD app by integrating the ngrok JavaScript SDK for stable domain setup and implementing OAuth through Google for user authentication and authorization.

The control plane in modern cloud technology is the component in a distributed system that directs how data is processed by the distributed data planes, ensuring proper and secure data processing.

Learn how the ngrok Go SDK empowers developers to streamline application deployment, enabling them to focus on coding and building remarkable applications confidently.

The best products align their exchange of value (their pricing metric) with the value that users receive from their product. Data shows that developers prefer to pay for infrastructure software via a consumption model.

Master the art of building a CRUD app with Node.js, Express, and React. Manage a database and deploy with ngrok.

Learn how ngrok secures your production infrastructure using MFA and Time-Based One Time Passwords (TOTP).

Developing a production-ready application is a complex and time-consuming undertaking involving collaboration with multiple engineering teams and stakeholders. This post walks through creating a CRUD web application in Go.

Webhooks are extremely useful for staying up to date with changes in other systems but are they secure? This post will guide you through some steps to ensure the webhooks you consume are valid.

HashiCorp Consul provides a scalable and highly resilient platform for managing traffic across microservices. When paired with ngrok, Consul provides a robust and secure way for service-to-service communication within a Kubernetes cluster to communicate, while ngrok can seamlessly and securely provide public ingress to those services.

Keep your webhook verification settings around awhile by configuring them using an ngrok Cloud Edge. This post will demonstrate the process using the ngrok Dashboard as well as the ngrok-go library.

Today, we're excited to announce the ngrok ingress controller, our native and open-source Kubernetes (k8s) resource for adding public, secure, and high-available ingress traffic to your k8s clusters.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-rs as the ngrok agent packaged as a Rust crate.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-go, our idiomatic Go package for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-go as the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.

ChatGPT by OpenAI can answer questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, generate stories and poetry, and more. Read on to learn how to build a ChatGPT-like SMS chatbot using the OpenAI API and Twilio Programmable Messaging with Python.

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to play with Zoom Apps. Before I dug in, I assumed Zoom would give an app a little information about an active or scheduled meeting, a little more on the user profile, let you manipulate a meeting, and call it a platform. Frankly, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

ngrok Secure Tunnels provides a simple to enable remote access to systems. With one command— i.e. `ngrok http 80` — you can share your apps, APIs, and systems with the world, without complex network configuration, reliability issues, and NAT. However, with power comes great responsibility so let's add OAuth 2.0

Learn how to set up and manage ngrok tunnels straight from VS Code. If you want to do the same, grab your VS Code and follow along.

Testing code is a tedious task and can take a lot of time, especially when certain conditions – i.e. trigger a webhook or API request from a service or load certain pages as a user – are required.

What can you tunnel with ngrok? More and more, a better question is: What can't you tunnel with ngrok?