ngrok Office Hours is a monthly livestream where members of the ngrok team answer questions about the ngrok platform.
In this session, we did things a little different: We brought on our founder and CEO, Alan Shreve, for a technical deep-dive into what we’ve built into 2024 and the future of product development in 2025. Not sure what ngrok's agent-oriented future looks like? Want to see implementations of internal+cloud endpoints or automatic multi-cloud failover? Curious about what's to come to ngrok next?
Some links to docs that explain some of our topics in depth:
- Traffic Policy: https://ngrok.com/docs/traffic-policy/
- IP restrictions action: https://ngrok.com/docs/traffic-policy/actions/restrict-ips/
- OAuth action: https://ngrok.com/docs/traffic-policy/actions/oauth/
- Agent SDKs: https://ngrok.com/docs/agent-sdks/
- Random macros for traffic shaping: https://ngrok.com/docs/traffic-policy/macros/utility/#randdouble--double
Timestamps
0:00 Kickoff and introduction
4:15 What changed at ngrok (as a company) in 2024?
11:04 Demo — introducing agent endpoints and Traffic Policy
13:45 Demo — add rate limiting to your endpoint with Traffic Policy
15:55 Demo — add complexity to Traffic Policy with expressions
17:44 Demo — integrate CEL interpolation into Traffic Policy rules
21:50 Demo — introducing cloud and internal endpoints
27:30 Demo — a primer to creating endpoints with our Go SDK
30:28 Demo — add Traffic Policy to SDK-provisioned endpoints
31:58 Demo — automated failover between clouds with Traffic Policy
44:50 Sneak peak into our 2025 roadmap
50:12 Live Q&A
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ngrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy that secures, protects and accelerates your applications and network services, no matter where you run them. You can think of ngrok as the front door to your applications.
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