Optimize for Deletion: Speed Up Development Without Adding Risk
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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.
Exploring the potential of friction-free deployments
What I learned from an experiment to make a world clock from a static site generator and Netlify's build automation.
The Reign of Static Site Generators 👑
Here’s our take on the history of static site generators, current trends, and where we see them heading moving forward (spoiler alert: look for serverless functions and headless CMSs to push the category forward).
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure
Learn how we planned, tested, and executed our first multicloud migration that could direct traffic to Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, and Rackspace Cloud on demand, without any service interruptions.
Ep. #23, Working Open Source Into Your Day Job
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Kent Dodds to the studio for a chat. Kent describes how he manages to actively contribute to open source projects while balancing a full-time job and a family. He also weighs in on why the developer community has over-reacted to the …
Replacing our search with Algolia
Netlify has been using Algolia for search on our public marketing page for a few months and we've seen some noticeable improvements.
Learning Review for Build Network Outages in September 2017
We had 3 outages in early-mid September 2017. This post describes the causes and what we're doing to prevent future similar situations.
Ep. #17, The Rise of Design Systems
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Rafael Conde, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent & Craig Wattrus to share their experiences building design systems.
Net Neutrality Panel at JAMstack SF
JAMstack SF gathered to listen to a panel on Net Neutrality
JAMstack vs Isomorphic Server Side Rendering
The JAMstack runs against all that is Isomorphic JavaScript. It encourages the separation of code between your client and your API while leveraging the use of microservices. At the core, if your site is serving static content, it is exposing your site to fewer vulnerabilities. Sites are …
JAMstack conference videos
Last month we hosted the first ever JAMstack focused conference, and are happy to share the videos for those who were unable to attend.
JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine
Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
Top Ten Static Site Generators of 2017
In this countdown, we will review the top ten static website generators of 2017 so far.
Design Series: Typography
Picking a good user interface typeface is not an easy task — here's some of our explorations and decisions for the new chapter of our app.
Accessibility on the Modern Web
Explore tips, tools, and best practices on accessibility on the modern web.
Optimizing Your CDN Strategy for the Ever-Changing Online World
When individuals or businesses opt to use CDN services, their primary goal is to provide a delightful experience to website visitors. Ensuring a fast loading website, despite the distance between access point of the visitor and server where the website is hosted became a thing of utmost …
Design Series: Our App's New Color Palette
Today we are going to address the color palette chosen to paint our backgrounds, our buttons, which gives our app it's look and feel.
Ep. #10, Learning JavaScript with Free Code Camp
Discuss Free Code Camp’s ‘self study together’ approach that has grown their community
Why You Don't Need Cloudflare with Netlify
Cloudflare can do lots of great things for websites, but Netlify's features can make a pairing of the two redundant.
A 2.0 Grid System
Kicking off this Design Series with our grid system — the building blocks, the scale that will be used to make a lot of layout decisions, keep a coherent look throughout the app, and make implementation a lot more simple.