Hey there, we're the team from Netlify and we're hosting an AMA!
We'll be answering your questions live from June 6, 2 PM EST onwards. We're so excited to chat with you!
Topics we'll cover include:
Shoot us your questions below! 👇
Thanks for the AMA, Just curious to know ,
When a site is deployed, is it pushed straight away to all your edge servers – so that each visitor will always get a fast page load from their nearest edge server?
Or is it stored on a single node, and the edge cache filled on demand, as with a typical CDN (eg Cloudflare) – meaning requests for uncached resources (most requests for a low-trafic site) need to be fetched across the net for many/most visitors?
Maybe this is in your docs or marketing somewhere but I didn't find a clear answer straight off. :-)
Hie Team Netlify, I just love your platform and service. Among all I really love your redirection feature and instant rollback.
I had a small question though as you guys are the one more into the world of JAMSTACK, would you please mention some perfect tools to add comment system.
Though I know a few like Commento, Netlify Comments, Disqus and Just Comments. I am looking for more alternatives, should be fast and easy to integrate into own UI.
Your pricing model. I've been building Wordpress sites for clients and now I'm transitioning to Gatsby/Netlify stack. I don't like to be involved in managing/charging for hosting (too many stories of past developers holding their clients hostage with hosting credentials), so I always had the clients set up their own hosting accounts (Siteground, WPEngine etc) and sometimes I'd use my affiliate link to get a bit of $ back.
I appreciate the free tier Netlify offers but I definitely see how some freelance/small shops can offer Netlify hosting at 10-20$/ month and the clients would have no problems paying it.
Ideally, I'd like to have the client set up their own account, provide me with access and pay/manage their own hosting.
Do you think a set up like this is possible now?
Hey guys! Few questions
How do you try and bring delight to the platform with design, UX, content etc?
Sarah Drasner are you going to bring any fancy SVG animation goodness to Netlify?
What is the most exciting thing about working at Netlify? What is the most challenging thing that you are working on atm?
Netlify is awesome. Nuxt is awesome.
Sarah do you think we'll soon have a full nuxt generate option (no API calls between pages)?
Don't you think it would be the perfect match ?
What fun project/tool did you discover recently? Also, is there a tool you use that not a lot of people have heard about, but they should 😃
You all are prolific devs!
What are your secrets to shipping all the wonderful things?
(Productivity hacks? Magic spells? Time machines?)
Whats the secret?!?!
What are some DX problems that y'all see coming up on the horizon that there aren't a lot of solutions for? If you could make any part of developing for web better, what would you change?
What are the traits that netlify looks for when hiring engineers? What are the biggest challenges that netlify faces in terms of infrastructure?
The team behind NetlifyCMS is already doing a great job building the self-hosted version, but do you have any plans to create a Netlify CMS which can be directly accessed from netlify.com
For example: app.netlify.com/sites/<sitename>/cms
Just like ButterCMS or GraphCMS?
Hey Folks, Thanks for the AMA 🙏
I was curious to know how you folks pick up a new skill, Can you go into the details of your learning process.
Hi,
Thanks for the AMA.
I have some questions:
How anyone of you shares his experience with others at work? Do you make some meetings at lunch time to explain new things that you learn in a conference or something ambiguous for some team members?
How do you guarantee the progress of your product or company according to customers requirements and the competitive products that exists nowadays?
What are the process that you use to evaluate a developer during a year in order to get promotion?
According to your requirements and your experience, what are the things that you look for when you recruit software engineers? (You look for the number of year of experience first then the technologies that he used if they fit with your requirements or not? If yes, you don't think that there is no technology will be adopted forever due the birth of different languages and technologies every year and hiring someone who is experimented with X framework today could not be a good person when you will change your framework after x years?)
How do you stay motivated at work :p ?
Thanks for doing this AMA and for everything you all do at Netlify! I love the service!
When it comes to setting up a JAMStack site, what is the best way to handle authentication with services that require API keys or some form of authentication? We obviously don't want them just hanging out in the front end willy nilly, and I've heard of having a possible serverless function or service that handles all API related calls, but I could see that possibly being abused.
I've found it hard to find a good answer for this, which could totally be improper wording.
Hey everyone, thanks for the AMA!
What's the next big thing coming to Netlify?
Hey all 👋
Thanks for the AMA!
I was wondering if you could share what your average day at work looks like and give us some organizational tips and tricks?
Hi everyone! Thanks for the AMA. I am ASP.NET MVC developer in a startup. I want to host my pet projects, how come Netlify will be useful for me over Azure or AWS?
Hi all, two things I think about a lot when using Netlify:
Thanks! Carl
There is a growing concern in the community to use reduce the carbon impact of the tech industry. Choosing a data centre powered by renewable energy to host our websites/apps is an easy way to reduce our carbon impact, at least a little.
Google Cloud has a 100% carbon offset (cloud.google.com/renewable-energy) and AWS has 5 regions which are powered by renewable energy.
I couldn't find any information on netlify.com regarding where/how the netlify servers are powered, do you have any information about it? It'd be really amazing to have a breakdown on the carbon consumption of a netlify project! (see thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/trying-an-idea-car…)
What are the things that you look for when you choose a candidate for a job post?
Will the features of the free tier of Netlify stay free? are there any plans made yet?
Caleb H.
Co-founder of High/Low
Is there any way to open multiple ports on a netlify project? For example, to host an RTMP and HTTP server?