When we develop on localhost, we usually use some kind of simple HTTP server like node, our Oracle database,APIs, webhooks, Callback Urls or whatever. This is all good and we are all pretty happy about that. We have access to our app using our fancy http://localhost url. We are happy, but alone . What if you would like to share your app to a colleague that is not on the same network as yours ? What if you need to check your app on an SSL connection? What if you wanted an external system to pass you a process invoked by a method ? ngrok to the rescue Ngrok is a simple “free” service that can help you with that. Here’s some of the features that it provides: Expose your locally hosted app/website to the outside world by providing you a http(s)://{something}.ngrok.io url. Allows you to have an SSL connection to your localhost environment. Inspect/replay the requests made to your local environment Custom subdomain (required a premium accou...
Looking at my cup , had the caption "If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will" this morning made me realize the enormous effort that Oracle has putting into it's products to make it a topnotch brand. Omg! so much to choose from and talk about.Today been OTN Appreciation Day ,I will limit it to the Oracle Database Cloud Service . It is simply Database Development and Administration computed on the internet.Where in the past , you run applications developed and administrated the database(APEX, Rest Services,PLSQL ,Java/ADF.s,etc) on some physical computer or server in your company building or at home but Oracle Database Cloud Service is just like your on premise instance just on the internet, giving you the same features, same software and same options. You can get started and explore the endless features that it comes with here . Also go check out what others are thankful for here .