From semantic CSS to Tailwind - Refactoring the Netlify UI codebase
In 2021, we're taking on the challenge of refactoring the CSS of our entire UI codebase to Tailwind. Learn more about how we're going to achieve this.
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Tracking down a CGO crash in production
At Netlify we’ve been expanding our adoption of Go-based services for the backend infrastructure that powers our core services. In this article, we explore a fault we encountered in a production service as we were scaling it to handle new traffic patterns. We uncover an exception we hit in …
Choosing Between Ref and Reactive with Vue 3's Composition API
An opinionated perspective on whether you should use ref or reactive in Vue 3's Composition API.
Incremental Static Regeneration: Its Benefits and Its Flaws
There are some awesome pros and some serious cons to using incremental static regeneration in your projects.
Meet our Netlifolks: Reesa Hylton
Check out our 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day-to-day. As we celebrate Black History Month, we also want to highlight some of our amazing team members to amplify their voices during this critical month.
Terminology explained: Atomic and immutable deploys
The terms "immutable deploys" and "atomic deploys" can be confusing. Let's define each of those and call out why they are important and beneficial to an efficient and reliable development workflow.
Meet our Netlifolks: Amina Gass
Check out out 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day-to-day. As we celebrate Black History Month, we also want to highlight some of our amazing team members to amplify their voices during this critical month.
Meet our Netlifolks: Laurie Voss
Check out the 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day to day & introduce you to the Netlifolks who build our products!
Engineering Career Development at Netlify
Learn more about career advancement within Netlify’s Engineering Team. Gain insights into the two tracks: advancing into management, or advancing as an individual contributor.
Teams in the time of Pandemic Pair and Mob Programming
Distributed teams can keep up morale and team-building with pair and mob coding. Let us tell you all about the parts we like!
Developer Experience at Netlify
The Developer Experience organization at Netlify is quite unique. In this post, we talk through the structure of the organization, how we work, who we are, and some of our team strategies.
Top 10 from 2020: Netlify Features & Announcements
Take a look back at some of the features and announcements Netlify made in 2020. A continued focus on how developers and enterprises work together on advancing the web.
Do You Have to Have Passion to Be a Good Coder
On this episode of Remotely Interesting, Cassidy, Jason, Phil, Sarah, and Tara discuss passion & programming.
How we test for accessibility at Netlify
At Netlify, to ensure a better experience for all our users, we consider accessibility to be part of every developer's responsibility. Here's how we test for it in our workflow.
Why you should code together: Mob Programming FAQs
If you're interested in pair or mob programming with your team but you aren't sure if it's the right fit for you, here's a bunch of answers to common questions to help you make your decision.
Meet our Netlifolks: Joel Cloralt
Check out the 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day to day & introduce you to the Netlifolks who build our products!
Take Netlify's 'Most Impactful Content' Survey
Help us help you, by taking this content survey and telling us what type of content you'd like to see from Netlify.
Meet our Netlifolks: Perry Eising
Check out the 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day to day & introduce you to the Netlifolks who build our products!
Meet our Netlifolks: Bhavana Srinivas
Check out the 'Meet our Netlifolks' series, a collection of interviews designed to give you a peek into our day to day & introduce you to the Netlifolks who build our products!
Optimize for Deletion: Speed Up Development Without Adding Risk
We need to ship quickly, but we also need to avoid burying ourselves in tech debt. Learn how to set up experimental projects to accomplish both goals.
Metrics-driven engineering leadership: How to elevate the visibility of your distributed team
How to establish the right base metrics to foster a healthy culture, uncover roadblocks and increase the productivity of your distributed engineering team.
On Mullenweg and the Jamstack - Regression or Future?
In response to Matt Mullenweg - founder of WordPress - who recently took a swipe at the Jamstack, we look at why developers are moving from monolithic WordPress sites to the modern web architecture.
How do you Blog?
Do you blog? Do you want to? Do want to hear how we blog? In this episode of Remotely Interesting, we cover that. The writing block, the publishing buzz, and everything in-between.
Building Large Sites on Netlify
When the site you are building keeps growing in size and is very large, the time it takes to pre-build that site takes longer too. This article goes into detail about how best to architect your web property to build quickly and with confidence.
State of the Jamstack Survey 2020: First results
Netlify ran a survey of thousands of Jamstack community members to give us a sense of ourselves with real data. Get the first results of our analysis!
Celebrating one year of Netlify Community forums
Happy 1st Birthday Netlify Community! Time flies when you are answering questions (and having fun). Community Manager Perry shares some insights into the first 365 days of running the Netlify Community forums.
It Only Matters If We Use It — Let’s Learn Design Systems, Part 3
Is your design system useful? Power up collaboration between designers & developers and drive adoption of design systems on your team.
Treat It Like Trash — Let’s Learn Design Systems, Part 2
Design systems only exist for one purpose: to build great software faster. Learn how can you avoid slowdowns and frustrations in your design process!
Intention vs. Drift — Let’s Learn Design Systems, Part 1
If you write software, you’ve already built a design system. How can you make sure it’s making you more efficient and not wasting your time?
Envisioning the future of the Jamstack
Over the last 5 years the Jamstack ecosystem has gained widespread adoption across companies large and small. In this post, let's dive into what the future of the Jamstack holds.
Remote Work Tips from a VP of Engineering
Netlify's VP of Engineering shares productivity tips for teams working remotely. From Zoom, Slack, and iteration, Dalia Havens dives into how Netlify's Engineering team works effectively across timezones.
How to Set Up Netlify DNS - Custom Domains, CNAME, & A Records
Subdomain or bare domain? Netlify DNS or another DNS provider? We offer some recommendations to help you best leverage our global CDN.
Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify
The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder!
Our Values, our Vision: Reflections from the 2020 Netlify All Hands
What happens when you put entire globally distributed team of Netlifolks in a room for days? A really powerful experience. Here are some notes from our 2020 All Hands.
The final full week of JAMuary for 2020
A look at the posts about JAMstack in week four of JAMuary 2020.
Spreading the JAMuary Love
A recap of the awesome JAMuary posts from January 15th to the 21st.
Let's keep talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A recap of the JAMstack posts from the second week of our 2020 JAMuary series.
Talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A review of the JAMstack post from the first week of JAMuary this year.
Git-Centric Workflow: The One API to Rule Them All
Netlify isn't *only* about JAMstack - there are a host of other design principles that inform the developer experience and product strategy users know and love. **Git-Centric Workflow** is a core philosophy embraced by Netlify, and listed as a [JAMstack Best …
Deep dive: How do React hooks really work?
In this article, we reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React Hooks. This will serve two purposes - to demonstrate the effective use of closures in building our React Hooks clone itself, and also to implement a naive mental model of how Hooks work under the hood. Finally, we …
Accessibility is not a “React Problem”
Nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps.
The importance of Developer Experience with GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner
7 Questions about JAMstack and developer experience, with the legendary founder of GitHub
TO VueConf and Beyond
Highlights from VueConf Toronto 2018
Netlify and The Functional, Immutable, Reactive Deploy
Three game-changing software engineering paradigms, and how they relate to Netlify
I Went to React Boston and Saw the Future
Talking trends and trending talks at React Boston 2018
The 10 talks and many highlights of Vue London
Some of the highlights of Vue London which featured 10 talks and 6 lightning talks about the popular JavaScript framework, VueJS
Netlify DX Q&A: Gatsby v2 with Jason Lengstorf
Presenting the first in our new interview series with leaders and innovators in Developer Experience - and who better to start with than Gatsby!
The Rise of Immer in React
Immutability is changing - time for an exploration of why Immer is a philosophical fit with React! Why has Immer gained so much love this year, and does it have staying power?
How to easily visualize a project's dependency graph with dependency-cruiser
Making it easier for people to get started contributing to open source with a visual representation of your project's dependancy graph
Enabling free wildcard domain certificates with Let's Encrypt
Wildcard certificates comes to Netlify bringing easy HTTPS to your subdomains. Here's a look at what was needed to make this happen, along with some help from our friends at Let's Encrypt.