Speed up your Jamstack site deployment
April 06, 2023
Speed up your Jamstack site deployment
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Starter
Overall Satisfaction with Netlify Platform
Netlify Platform is used for quick and fast PoC deployments for JavaScript based PWAs. We use it to quickly connect to Github to auto configure CI CD and test our applications in real time. This allows us to not depend on the complex standard delivery pipelines that are normally used for production releases, and instead, provide an easy way to test our changes for smaller applications. We run an average of 30 deployment pipelines a week, based on a variety of projects across the department
- I can connect Github/Gitlab repos or drag and drop code folders directly to host them onto the platform, and can customize build and publish details. It handles all granular details itself, so I don't have to worry about configuring everything like I would have to do on an IaaS like AWS
- Netlify Platform has inbuilt scalability support - meaning automatic upgrading of servers to handle traffic, without us needing to do anything at all, again, unlike IaaS, where we'd have to manually configure scaling
- It has a built in CDN, meaning static applications can be served blazing fast over the web without worrying about traffic or latency
- Netlify Platform is mainly aimed at static and frontend applications and doesn't have any particular backend hosting features like server or database tools. This makes it fall short of the use case that options like Heroku provide
- Netlify Platform has a free tier, but the costs shoot up if the website is aimed at commercial use, and can easily cross the limits, thus for commercial use, it's better to consider all alternatives
- In an ease to simplify hosting for small applications, there is a lack of control on a lot of configuration options in Netlify Platform since it's all abstracted away, and thus, there's not a lot of customization possible
- Continuous Integration
- Subdomain configuration
- Automatic build process
- Netlify Platform has reduced our cost of additional server capabilities for PoC projects
- Netlify Platform has simplified CI CD pipelines for small standalone applications, thereby improving developer productivity
- Junior developers mainly working on Netlify Platform are often unable to get a low level understanding of server configuration, which is a drawback
Heroku provides backend server capabilities, meaning its configuration is slightly more complex and involved than Netlify Platform. Netlify Platform trades off ease off deployment for limited hosting capabilities
Do you think Netlify Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Netlify Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Netlify Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Netlify Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Netlify Platform again?
Yes