Not many startups get to have their product play a main role in the biggest movie franchise in World history. But that’s what happened for Sphero when they came up with BB8, the cool Star Wars droid.
That meant that when Sphero.com was being created, being able to handle huge traffic spikes serving terabytes a day in peak moments being able to smoothly cater a vast amount of users was the single most important thing.
It’s our choice for Netlify’s very first Site of the Week because it takes great advantage of being served from our custom built CDNs, and first and foremost because droids are awesome!
Check out below for the short chat we had with Sphero on their site and use of Netlify.
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Lead Developer, Sphero
question 01
What is it?
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Lead Developer, Sphero
question 02
Why Netlify?
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Lead Developer, Sphero
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Favorite Feature?
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Lead Developer, Sphero
Netlify Features Used
- Rollbacks
- Continuous Delivery
- Branch Deploys
- Deploy Contexts
- Asset Post Processing
- Domain Aliases
- Prerendering
- Password Protection
- Custom HTTP Headers
- Redirect Rules
- Rewrite Rules
- Proxy Rules
- Outbound Webhooks
- Outbound Integrations
- Git Integration
- Cached Dependencies
- Drag & Drop Deploy
- Web UI
- Deploy previews
- HTTPS
Tools & Frameworks Used
- Angular
- Jekyll
- GRUNT
- Contentful API
- Vero API
- SASS