Wow, just wow!

Netlify amazes

Fri, 14 Dec 2018

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I’ve been working through the Gatsby JS tutorials to get a simple shell of a blog up. Gatsby JS is a static site generator built using some pretty cool tech - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and Markdown. As I’ve been doing this one name that kept coming up was Netlify.

Netlify is a cloud based company that provides serverless hosting for static sites. Their free tier is pretty amazing. I was able to setup an account, point it at my GitHub repo, build my Gatsby JS project, and deploy the results in about 10 minutes. Oh, and adding a custom domain and an SSL certificate from Lets Encrypt was only another 5 minutes!

The other super cool feature for me is that, out of the box and without me needing to do any extra configuring, Netlify will automatically update based on me pushing updates to my GitHub repo! It’s like I have a mini CI and CD pipeline and I barely did anything.

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André Wanlin

André Wanlin is a Full Stack Developer and Team Leader at Petline Insurance Company, where André leads application development, including system administration and support. André has worked in .NET since 2008 and is passionate about DevOps and development methodologies like Lean, Agile, Scrum and Kanban. He loves to talk about Azure DevOps (formerly Team Foundation Server). André is a dog owner, an avid concert goer, and traveler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. You can reach him at andre@wanlin.ca or go to andre.wanlin.ca or you can catch him walking his dog at one of the many dog parks in the city.