By Paul Krill
Ngrok, provider of an ingress service that delivers traffic from developer platforms to the internet, has unveiled an API gateway-as-a-service, which is now available in an early access developer preview.
Ngrok’s API gateway enables developers to use the global ngrok network as an API gateway-as-a-service. Announced February 15, the API gateway offers capabilities such as JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication and authorization, global rate limiting, flexible request/response manipulation, and fine-grained traffic routing, powered by a new policy engine and ngrok’s global network for production API traffic.
In elaborating on its reasoning behind the API gateway-as-a-service, ngrok said the process of delvering APIs is fraught with challenges, including developers relying on operations teams to deploy and deliver APIs to production, thus delaying launches. Developers often lack control over API gateways, leading to broken contracts between API services and traffic management policies.
The API gateway addresses these challenges with a developer-centric approach to API delivery, providing faster delivery and reduced risk, the company said.
