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HOW WE BUILT NGROK'S DATA PLATFORM

ngrok.com23 min read

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Ngrok built its data platform with an engineering team of just one person, using open-source tools and self-hosting on Kubernetes. They had challenges like complex schemas and large data volumes, which were addressed through code generation, schema normalization, and scaling Apache Flink with Protobuf messages.