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Netlify, Inc.
FormerlyMakerLoop, Inc.[1]
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded
Founder
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
List of key people
Products
Revenue21,600,000 United States dollar (2020) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
200 (2021) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.netlify.com

Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud computing company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for static websites.

It features continuous deployment from Git across a global application delivery network,[b 1][4][5] serverless form handling,[b 2] support for AWS Lambda functions,[6] and full integration with Let's Encrypt.[7] It provides both free and paid plans.[b 3]

Netlify customers include Google, Facebook, Verizon, NBC, Samsung, Cisco, Atlassian, Vue.js, Citrix, Peloton, Kubernetes, Lodash, Smashing Magazine, and Sequoia Capital.[8][9][10][11][12]

History

A predecessor to the company began in 2013 when Danish entrepreneur Mathias Biilmann noticed a return to static websites 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 in the new venture.[9] Netlify was publicly launched as a MakerLoop product in March 2015.[3]

On December 19, 2017, MakerLoop filed a certificate of amendment with the Secretary of State of Delaware reincorporating and changing its name to Netlify.[1]

Financing

On August 16, 2016, Netlify raised $2.1 million from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, and Rackspace Cloud.[13]

On August 9, 2017, the company announced that it had raised $12 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz.[14][15][16][17]

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.[4][10][18]

Products

Netlify CMS

Netlify CMS dashboard.

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][9]

JAMstack

Main article: JAMstack

JAMstack, a cloud-native web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and markup,[b 4] was pioneered and created by Netlify.[19] [20] In basic terms, JAMstack is a significant shift in focus from the now abstractable backend to the now powerful frontend. [21]

Reception

In March 2017, Netlify CMS was named "GitHub project of the week" by the Software Development Times.[22]

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."[23]

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."[24]

References

Bibliography

  1. ^ Xie, Yihui; Presmanes Hill, Alison; Thomas, Amber (2017). blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. The R Series. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 79. ASIN B077VXPSL8. ISBN 9780815363729.
  2. ^ a b Camden, Raymond; Rinaldi, Brian (2017). Working with Static Sites: Bringing the Power of Simplicity to Modern Sites. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media. pp. 155, 177. ASIN B06XHGH789. ISBN 9781491960943.
  3. ^ Xie, Yihui; Allaire, Joseph J.; Grolemund, Garrett (2018). R Markdown: The Definitive Guide. The R Series. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 207. ASIN B07G1CS6Z1. ISBN 9781138359338.
  4. ^ Gilbert, John (2018). JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook: Deliver serverless cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. pp. 143, 148. ASIN B0787DF1FH. ISBN 9781788470414.

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Business Entities Filing Document" (PDF). Secretary of State of California. February 26, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "Business filings for Netlify, Inc". Office of the Secretary of State of California. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Neal, Ryan (July 26, 2016). "Guest Post: NATS at Netlify - New Possibilities for Ultra-fast Web Content Publishing". NATS. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Sawers, Paul (October 9, 2018). "Netlify raises $30 million to modernize the web". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  5. ^ Rometsch, Ben (July 25, 2018). "How to Use Feature Flags in Continuous Integration". SitePoint. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Biilmann, Matt (January 15, 2016). "A World's First. Free SSL with Let's Encrypt". Netlify. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b c Finley, Klint (October 24, 2018). "This Company Wants to Make the Internet Load Faster". WIRED. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  10. ^ a b Deutscher, Maria (October 9, 2018). "Founders of Slack, Yelp join $30M round into web development startup Netlify". Silicon Angle. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  11. ^ "Netlify Application Delivery Network". Netlify. Retrieved October 17, 2018. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 29 (help)
  12. ^ "Plans and Pricing". Netlify. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  13. ^ Lynley, Matthew (August 17, 2017). "Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Hanley Frank, Blair (August 9, 2017). "Netlify raises $12 million to advance web development". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Levine, Peter (August 9, 2017). "Netlify". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  18. ^ Miller, Ron (October 9, 2018). "Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  19. ^ Gienow, Michelle (December 26, 2017). "The Sweetness of JAMstack: JavaScript, APIs and Markup". The New Stack. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  20. ^ Leopold, George (October 9, 2018). "App Developer Netlify Looks Beyond Web Servers". EnterpriseTech. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  21. ^ Ouellet, Charles. "JAMstack for Clients: Benefits, Static Site CMS, & Limitations". CodeBurst.io.
  22. ^ Moore, Madison (March 24, 2017). "SD Times GitHub project of the week: Netlify CMS". SD Times. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ "Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with a global 'Application Delivery Network'" (Press release). Netlify. October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
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