About the Authors

Mathias Biilmann is the technical cofounder and CEO of Netlify, a platform for modern web development used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. An active participant in open source, Mathias has contributed to the following well-known projects: Netlify CMS, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, and Mongoid.

Phil Hawksworth is principal developer advocate at Netlify. With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the Web, Phil loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where overengineering is common. Phil’s 20 year career in web development includes time as a software engineer at Verisign, an open source evangelist at British Telecom, and technology director at R/GA where he worked with clients around the world such as Nike, Google, Beats By Dre, and Samsung to bring engaging and effective experiences to the widest audience possible.

Acknowledgments

This report would not be possible without the contributions, review, and inspiration from the following people:

Chris Bach is cofounder of Netlify. Previously, he spent 14 years in the agency world, where he started Denmark’s first hybrid production agency and won many international awards. He stands behind services like headlesscms.org, testmysite.io, and jamstack.org, and is one of the originators of the JAMstack term.

Todd Morey is creative director at Netlify, a passionate user of JAMstack technologies, and one of the early investors in the company. He cofounded The Rackspace Cloud and was creative director at the OpenStack Foundation.