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Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

StavrosK wrote: post #37

I use Netlify for all my static sites and it's been amazing. All I have to do is push and they take care of everything else, I can't understate how much I love the product. If you want to check out a live deployment, my website https://www.stavros.io/ is on Netlify. I especially like how they provide forms, lambdas and very easy testing by just pushing to another git branch. I don't see why anyone would use Github/Gi…

Same. It's made my product design/prototyping/validation workflow insanely efficient. Really happy with it, and curious to explore some of the other features (like lambdas).

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by manigandham »

pixelrevision wrote: post #35
tome wrote: post #31

This may be a naive question, but how many websites are actually static these days?

Not a ton. But the idea here is you use javascript to call an API for your dynamic content. This way your javascript/css/images are all setup on a CDN that you don't have to manage.

But where does the API come from? Dynamic content needs don't go away with static sites and usually it's yet another service to worry about.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by jhabdas »

It's been a year since I last spoke with Netlify staff [^1]. They weren't super keen on the arguments I raised against using their service given you can host Websites that load in 100-200ms on S3 with CloudFront for pennies a month. If course S3 isn't as push-button as Netlify but it's certainly much more extensible and will probably be around longer.

[^1]: https://habd.as/zero-to-http-2-aws-hugo/

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

petercooper wrote: post #7
jypepin wrote: post #3

Ok, I'm a web dev and I hate having to deal with web servers, configs, CI, etc. The idea sounds great, but I can't understand how this works from this post. Can someone explain how this works exactly? Are they basically offering a way to prebuild apps to static assets and host them on CDNs? How do server-side only things will happen then?

Think Heroku but just for deploying static assets. You can do something as simple as have a git repo of assets, push it, and you're up and running with SSL, etc, straight away. How do you get dynamic? Well, they support a build process so static sites or assets can be built at their end, if that's how you roll. But if you want fully dynamic sites, well, no, you can use their AWS Lambda-powered functions service to he…

Databases are, in general, the next obvious question for a dynamic app on Netlify. Some solutions can use lambdas, but since a straight-up database is always going to be necessary for certain things, it makes me wonder if they'd roll out a paid database at some point... though that sort of conflicts with their "JAM" "no backend! well somebody else's backend maybe?" selling point

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by bpye »

StavrosK wrote: post #37

I use Netlify for all my static sites and it's been amazing. All I have to do is push and they take care of everything else, I can't understate how much I love the product. If you want to check out a live deployment, my website https://www.stavros.io/ is on Netlify. I especially like how they provide forms, lambdas and very easy testing by just pushing to another git branch. I don't see why anyone would use Github/Gi…

I found Netlify a few months ago and use them just for my blog currently. They are great though and would recommend them to anyone. It was trivial to get something setup with https with a Let's Encrypt certificate on my own domain, pushing to GitHub to update the site.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by freebs »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #44
petercooper wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think Heroku but just for deploying static assets. You can do something as simple as have a git repo of assets, push it, and you're up and running with SSL, etc, straight away. How do you get dynamic? Well, they support a build process so static sites or assets can be built at their end, if that's how you roll. But if you want fully dynamic sites, well, no, you can use their AWS Lambda-powered functions service to he…

Databases are, in general, the next obvious question for a dynamic app on Netlify. Some solutions can use lambdas, but since a straight-up database is always going to be necessary for certain things, it makes me wonder if they'd roll out a paid database at some point... though that sort of conflicts with their "JAM" "no backend! well somebody else's backend maybe?" selling point

Firebase Cloud Firestore is so nice and they've been working on it for a long time, this would likely not be a good use of their time.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by sergiotapia »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #15

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

I used to be a Divshot customer - they were fantastic.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by bufferoverflow »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #15

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

I thought Firebase was Firebase since 2011, and got bought by Google in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by gkoberger »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #48
pixelmonkey wrote: post #15

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

I thought Firebase was Firebase since 2011, and got bought by Google in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase

Divshot is a separate product, that became a Firebase feature.
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