--- title: Our approach to always evolving dev tools for speed and... description: Ngrok's infra team describes the design philosophy behind nd, their internal CLI tool that unifies the software development lifecycle across a polyglot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/our-approach-to-always-evolving-dev-tools-for-speed-and-clarity-6mbljygdv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Our approach to always evolving dev tools for speed and clarity | daily.dev og:description: Ngrok's infra team describes the design philosophy behind nd, their internal CLI tool that unifies the software development lifecycle across a polyglot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/our-approach-to-always-evolving-dev-tools-for-speed-and-clarity-6mbljygdv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6mblJYGDv.png og:image:alt: Our approach to always evolving dev tools for speed and clarity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Our approach to always evolving dev tools for speed and clarity **[ngrok Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ngrok)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ngrok's infra team describes the design philosophy behind nd, their internal CLI tool that unifies the software development lifecycle across a polyglot monorepo (go, typescript, python, proto, scala). Key principles include exposing underlying commands rather than hiding them, migrating to Bazel for build tooling to make errors more searchable and builds faster via remote caching, adding helper commands like cached last-known-good builds and diagnostic gists, and instrumenting nd with tracing to catch problems proactively. The piece is a story about internal tooling evolution rather than a specific product release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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