I'm a regular and happy user of Apache CouchDB — so much so, in fact, that I'm writing a library to talk to it from PHP. While working on tweaking a feature, I realized that the laptop I use for development didn't have the right/enough data on it to test this particular thing — but that I did have a suitable database on my other laptop. Copying data between CouchDB installations is very easy because it has an HTTP API, but usually, when I do this, at least one endpoint is web-accessible. Enter one of my favorite tools: ngrok.
Ngrok allows me to make the CouchDB on one machine visible to the world (with all the security caveats that this entails — it's a random URL, so never leave the tunnel open longer than you need it, etc.) with a command like this:
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