srichard16

ngrok does this free, but with an account

Can confirm. Coming from ngrok, the main reason we had to make tunneling not anonymized etc was because of scammers, etc on the internet. Other players in the space bypass this by open sourcing the tech, or separating the architecture entirely. This is cool and all, but ultimately gives nefarious actors on the internet more opportunities.

Sometimes the k8s docs remind me of google's documentation

For what its worth, this has been swiriling around on socials and i saw someone noted that the guy had been busted for something at age 17, maybe he was on some list?

I work at ngrok, and this is not how our freemium plan works. Free plans limit based on usage alone, not on machine IDs.

100%

This is a pretty huge problem for marketing teams in general with site sprawl (and docs, too) so I like how this was solved.

With nd, developers shouldn’t need to know how to build or deploy a service; they just need to know what service they want to interact with, and nd helps whether go, webpack, bazel, or docker builds that service. Likewise, deploying a service automatically checks if it was built, and if not, nd will build it for them (or warn them if it's production-bound and they want a CI build instead).

Curious: why do you see ngrok as just for testing and dev when thousands of users use ngrok in production?

Full disclosure I work there.