What is Netlify technology?

Netlify is a web hosting platform that offers seamless benefits. It is based in San Francisco and allows developers to host their websites in the cloud without having to deal with server administration. It is a next-generation website hosting infrastructure that is designed to improve overall productivity. By using Netlify, developers can develop faster, scale their websites more securely, and improve performance from the beginning of their development process to the end of it.

Netlify is the first modern platform to provide the Jam stack architecture. The word Jam stack means a development stack that is made up of APIs, JavaScript, and templated markup. The term Jam stack was coined by Mathias Billman who is also the co-founder of Netlify technology. Netlify is a seamless automation platform that eliminates developers' responsibility to manage the backend because it does so automatically.

Netlify's technology has many features that can enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of website hosting. Among them are its dynamic functionalities that change over time. With Netlify's automatic system, it can build a file storage/management system that will allow providers and Netlify to get connected to the repository simultaneously. In this way, if any changes are made to the server, those changes are then distributed and spread across the content delivery network. It is now pre-built as static pages before it is delivered to users.

Netlify’s architecture

Due to the Jam stack architecture of Netlify, Netlify users are not liable to manage any kind of website. Netlify automatically pre-builds sites and uses a CDN. The architectural structure of Netlify can be divided into three main levels: the front end, the back end, and the database.

JavaScript and AIs are used to communicate between the front end and the back end. This is because, in the Netlify architecture, the Jam stack decouples the front end from the backend and the database. Backend services are not distributed at once, thus not increasing the load. The backend server works on serverless functions and is distributed as various microservices to lessen the load. Database services are not directly accessible in the Netlify architecture. Users need to make use of other backend providers like DataStax, Step Zen, and Fauna to access the database.