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Netlify Platform

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What is Netlify Platform?

Netlify is a platform for developers from the company of the same name in San Francisco, used to build performant and dynamic web sites, e-commerce stores and applications. By uniting an ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow.

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Screenshot of Build interactive and connected web applications faster with Netlify Graph. Start using API services without spending time writing glue code, learning every API’s unique structure, or composing endless API endpoints to get data into your app. Token management becomes a non-issue. Graph Authentication handles token refresh and scope management so your APIs stay connected over time.
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Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Netlify Platform
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

11.6%

2,348 installations of 20,240

#2 most frequent

Information

8.9%

1,804 installations of 20,240

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

3.1%

623 installations of 20,240

Reviews

What users are saying about Netlify Platform.
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Straightforward and available deployment.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Netlify to host our production front end and preview deployments. During our CI workflow in CircleCI, we use the Netlify CLI to push up deployment, and we use Netlify's redirect features to redirect all paths at our website URL to our React SPA.

Pros

  • Availability
  • CLI
  • Redirects

Cons

  • Analytics is extra.

Return on Investment

  • Preview deployments save us a ton of time.
  • If we couldn't deploy in China, it would be unusable.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Vercel

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Run, CircleCI, Google Cloud SQL

Netlify Platform Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Netlify Platform to deploy our website, deploy testing previews, process form data and for domain management.

Pros

  • Easy to review deploy logs and revert builds
  • Form implementation and integration is easy
  • Simple domain management
  • Excellent support

Cons

  • More flags for customizing deployment environments
  • Easier navigation
  • More robust A/B planning

Return on Investment

  • Improved build times by 50%
  • Reduced build debugging & related issues by 23%
  • Improved form implementation alongside Zapier

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

Other Software Used

pgAdmin, Cyberduck, RevenueCat

Speed up your Jamstack site deployment

Incentivized
Dushyant Pathak
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Deutsche Bank (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • Continuous Integration
  • Subdomain configuration
  • Automatic build process

Return on Investment

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

Heroku Platform

Other Software Used

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA

start-up friendly plantform to pave the way for your webapp & SPA

Incentivized
Lankit PatelView profile
AWS Developer | Laravel Developer in Information Technology at AeonX Digital Solutions (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we have two types of business scenarios that we run on Netlify Platford. Frontend with modern javascript frameworks like React, Vue & Angular Statically generated sites/portfolio AKA JamStack for the first case, we already have our backend code running on a server and exposing API endpoints. we can readily use this API with basic AUTH like JWT, Netlify Platform can handle the rest. more often than not, once we set up a project on Netlify Platform, we never have to check out the admin panel. Netlify Platform has a robust CMD tool. once the Pipeline setup is live, all one has to do is just commit and push the code. that's how easy it is the second scenario is to host statically generated Jamstack sites. these are basically pre-rendered websites that provide blazingly fast response time. once again, the same magic happens here, you focus on your code and just push it, Netlify Platform with its global range of CDN will distribute it for optimal speed.

Pros

  • command line tool
  • fast network of global CDNs
  • CI/CD ready to deploy

Cons

  • it is not aimed at it but first party laravel support would be nice.
  • their free tier was so handy, i wish they start some similar efforts
  • incorporate more WebOps mindset

Most Important Features

  • command line tools
  • CI/CD
  • Global CDN to speed up static sites

Return on Investment

  • as of starting it had a free tier, it gave a lot of sandbox experience which is hard to quantify in amount
  • business heavy application should avoid it as more promising options are there
  • we saved much resources that couldve been potentially occupied in some static sites

Alternatives Considered

Pantheon

Other Software Used

Pantheon, Laravel PHP Framework, Zend Studio PHP IDE

The best platform for hosting, deploying, and managing static websites

Incentivized
Ankush JainView profile
Cloud Consultant in Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To deploy and host static websites, we used Netlify Platform. Netlify is a simple platform that allows you to quickly deploy applications to its servers. It integrates seamlessly with GitHub for CI/CD process, where we kept our code repositories. One of the best things about Netlify is that it automatically performs a preview deployment for any commit in feature branches, allowing you to review the changes before you go to production.

Pros

  • Preview deployment
  • DNS management
  • CI/CD integration

Cons

  • The total build minutes in free tier could be increased

Most Important Features

  • Custom domain
  • Preview deployments
  • Seamless CI/CD integration
  • CDN support

Return on Investment

  • Reduced time to go live
  • Made DevOps easy

Alternatives Considered

Firebase and Heroku Platform

Other Software Used

start.me, Umbraco CMS, QuillBot