Netlify
Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud computing[4] company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for web applications and static websites.
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Formerly | MakerLoop, Inc.[1] |
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Headquarters | , United States ![]() |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Revenue | 21,600,000 United States dollar (2020) ![]() |
Number of employees | 97 (2020) ![]() |
Its features include continuous deployment from Git across Netlify Edge, the company's global application delivery network infrastructure,[b 1][5][6] serverless form handling,[b 2] support for AWS Lambda functions,[7] and full integration with Let's Encrypt.[8] It provides both free and paid plans.[b 3]
Netlify customers include Google, Facebook, Verizon, NBC, Samsung, Nike, Cisco, Atlassian, LiveChat, Unilever, TriNet, Loblaw, Wieden+Kennedy, HashiCorp, Vue.js, Citrix, Peloton, Kubernetes, Lodash, Smashing Magazine, and Sequoia Capital.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
History
A predecessor to the company was founded in 2014 when Danish entrepreneur Mathias Biilmann noticed the emergence of Git-centered workflows with modern build tools and static sites generators, a shift he described as "a massive change happening in the web development space", while running MakerLoop, a content management startup based in San Francisco. In 2015, Biilmann invited Christian Bach, his childhood friend who was working as an executive at a creative services agency in Denmark, to join him as co-founder in his new venture.[10] Netlify was publicly launched as a MakerLoop product on April 7, 2015.[16]
On December 19, 2017, MakerLoop filed a certificate of amendment with the Secretary of State of Delaware rebranding the entire company as Netlify.[1]
Financing
On August 16, 2016, Netlify raised $2.1 million from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, and Rackspace Cloud.[17]
On August 9, 2017, the company announced that it had raised $12 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz.[18][19][20][21]
On October 9, 2018, the company issued a press release announcing that it had completed a series B round led by Kleiner Perkins—with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Slack and Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman, among others—securing $30 million.[5][11][22]
On March 4, 2020, Netlify secured $53 million in a series C round led by EQT Ventures, the venture capital branch of Swedish investment company EQT, with contributions by existing investors Adreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and newcomer Preston-Werner Ventures.[23][24]
Products
Netlify CMS
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To address some of the limitations of static websites, which tend to be less sophisticated and harder to use for the website maintainer than a dynamic content publishing solution such as WordPress or Medium, Netlify develops its own open source headless content management system called Netlify CMS.[b 2][10]
Jamstack
Jamstack[lower-alpha 1] is a cloud-native web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript code, reusable APIs, and markup content.[b 4] It was pioneered and created by Netlify.[25][26] In its purest form, the idea of Jamstack is that a web application is pre-built into static pages, using content and code to generate the output. In basic terms, Jamstack is a significant shift in focus from the now abstractable back end to the now-powerful front end.[27]
Reception
In March 2017, Netlify CMS was named "GitHub project of the week" by the Software Development Times.[28]
On July 10, 2018, GitHub founder and former CEO Tom Preston-Werner predicted that "within 5 years, you'll build your next large scale, fully featured web app with JAMstack and deploy on Netlify."[29]
In an October 2018 press release co-authored by Netlify, CodePen co-founder Chris Coyier stated that "this is where the web is going, Netlify is just bringing it to us all a lot faster. With all the innovation in the space, this is an exciting time to be a developer."[30]
References
Bibliography
- Xie, Yihui; Presmanes Hill, Alison; Thomas, Amber (2017). blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. The R Series. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 79. ISBN 9780815363729.
- Camden, Raymond; Rinaldi, Brian (2017). Working with Static Sites: Bringing the Power of Simplicity to Modern Sites. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media. pp. 155, 177. ISBN 9781491960943.
- Xie, Yihui; Allaire, Joseph J.; Grolemund, Garrett (2018). R Markdown: The Definitive Guide. The R Series. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 207. ISBN 9781138359338.
- Gilbert, John (2018). JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook: Deliver serverless cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. pp. 143, 148. ISBN 9781788470414.
Notes
- Previously stylized as JAMstack.
Citations
- "Business Entities Filing Document" (PDF). Secretary of State of California. February 26, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
- "Business filings for Netlify, Inc". Office of the Secretary of State of California. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- "See Netlify's Company and Product Milestones - 1 Million Devs". Netlify. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- McKemie, Ashley; Rydhan, Sarfaraz (February 21, 2020). "How to Build JAMstack Ecommerce Store - BigCommerce & Netlify". Netlify. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
- Sawers, Paul (October 9, 2018). "Netlify raises $30 million to modernize the web". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- Rometsch, Ben (July 25, 2018). "How to Use Feature Flags in Continuous Integration". SitePoint. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- Miller, Ron (March 20, 2018). "Netlify wants to make it easier for web developers to use AWS Lambda event triggers". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- Biilmann, Matt (January 15, 2016). "A World's First. Free SSL with Let's Encrypt". Netlify. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- Blædel, Mathias (August 11, 2017). "Dansk startup får millionrygstød: Har Google og Facebook som kunder" [Danish startup gets a $1 million push: Has Google and Facebook as customers]. Dagbladet Børsen (in Danish). Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- Finley, Klint (October 24, 2018). "This Company Wants to Make the Internet Load Faster". WIRED. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
- Deutscher, Maria (October 9, 2018). "Founders of Slack, Yelp join $30M round into web development startup Netlify". Silicon Angle. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- "Netlify Application Delivery Network". Netlify. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- "Plans and Pricing". Netlify. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- "Netlify raises $53 mn Series C funding to fuel expansion". hrnxt.com. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
- "Netlify nabs $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- "Netlify News No. 2". Netlify. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- Lynley, Matthew (August 17, 2017). "Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- Weinberger, Matt (August 9, 2017). "A hot startup is using $12 million from Andreessen Horowitz to pursue a 'holy grail' of web technology". Business Insider. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- Hanley Frank, Blair (August 9, 2017). "Netlify raises $12 million to advance web development". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- Wittorff, Jacob Ø. (August 25, 2017). "Dansk it-firma har landet en investering fra et af verdens største ventureselskaber: "De forlanger pengene 100 gange igen"" [Danish IT company lands investment from one of the world's largest venture companies: They expect a 100-times return]. Computerworld (in Danish). Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- Levine, Peter (August 9, 2017). "Netlify". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- Miller, Ron (October 9, 2018). "Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- "Netlify nabs $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- "Netlify's $53M Series C Funding Announcement - See How We're Changing the Web". Netlify. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- Gienow, Michelle (December 26, 2017). "The Sweetness of JAMstack: JavaScript, APIs and Markup". The New Stack. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
- Leopold, George (October 9, 2018). "App Developer Netlify Looks Beyond Web Servers". EnterpriseTech. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
- Ouellet, Charles. "JAMstack for Clients: Benefits, Static Site CMS, & Limitations". CodeBurst.io.
- Moore, Madison (March 24, 2017). "SD Times GitHub project of the week: Netlify CMS". SD Times. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
- Tom Preston-Werner [@mojombo] (July 10, 2018). "Prediction: within 5 years, you'll build your next large scale, fully featured web app with #JAMstack and deploy on @Netlify" (Tweet). Retrieved October 9, 2018 – via Twitter.
- "Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with a global 'Application Delivery Network'" (Press release). Netlify. October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.