Developer experience in deployed API gateways: Kong vs. ngrok

The text compares the developer experience (DX) of using Kong Gateway and ngrok's API gateway for deploying JWT-secured APIs, emphasizing the importance of DX in API design and deployment. Both gateways aim to simplify the process of setting up API authentication and routing, but they differ in approach. Kong Gateway, based on Nginx, requires involvement from DevOps or IT teams for infrastructure deployment and involves using curl commands and the Admin API to configure services and routes. In contrast, ngrok's API gateway offers a more streamlined process with built-in JWT validation, simplified provisioning, and configuration using YAML and CEL expressions, eliminating the need for complex networking setups and allowing developers more control over operations. ngrok's approach abstracts infrastructure complexity, providing DDoS protection and global load balancing at the edge, making it easier and quicker for developers to deploy and manage APIs across different environments while maintaining security through integration with Auth0 for token management.

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