Understanding the Jamstack

Matt Biilmann (@biilmann, CEO/Co-Founder @Netlify) talks about the evolution of websites, the architecture of the Jamstack, the evolution of mobile + CDNs, and interacting with 3rd-party APIs. 


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SHOW NOTES:

• Jamstack (https://jamstack.org/) (homepage)
• Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/) (homepage)
• Netlify Edge Handlers (https://www.netlify.com/products/edge...) (run code at the CDN edge)
• The debate between Wordpress (https://thenewstack.io/wordpress-co-f...) and Jamstack (https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/09/...) about the future of websites


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been trying to make websites easier for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and what motivates you about Netlify.


Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about how the web is consumed these days; what’s broken, and how are you trying to make it better?


Topic 3 -  What is Jamstack? How much is language, how much is frameworks, how much is architecture, and how much is a different way to think about Websites/Content/CMS?


Topic 4 - So we have this website content distributed out to the CDN, how to 3rd-party APIs interact with the system (e.g. Stripe, Agolia, Twilio, AWS Lambda, etc.)?


Topic 5 - CDN’s just used to serve content, and now they are running code at the edge. How do those interactions work? 


Topic 6 - You recently wrote that we might be hitting an inflection point for Websites/CMS’. Is that just a natural evolution of the distributed internet, or has anything in 2020 accelerated that?




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