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Front-end web development platform startup Netlify Inc. said today it has acquired a rival company called Gatsby Inc., the creator of the open-source GatsbyJS framework, for an undisclosed fee.
Although Gatsby managed to raise a total of $46.8 million in funding, the company struggled to achieve the same traction as Netlify, or another competitor, Vercel Inc.
Netlify is a much bigger player in the web development business, counting major enterprise customers such as Twilio Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., ServiceNow Inc., Box Inc. and Mattel Inc., and more than 3 million developers using its platform. It’s the creator of the so-called “JAMstack” movement, which stands for JavaScript, API and Markup.
The cloud-based Netlify Platform is designed for web development projects and bundles everything a developer needs, including production servers, test servers for validating code updates, deployment pipelines for pushing updates, and a content delivery network, into a single platform. Previously, developers would have to set up all of these elements themselves.
One of the key features of Netlify is its ability to integrate with code hosting services like GitHub. Developers can therefore link Netlify to a project’s code repository and with a few commands, transform those files into a functional website.
“A platform like Netlify is all about simplification,” Chris Bach, co-founder and president of Netlify, said in a 2020 interview on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio. “Now you just have to maintain your content and you don’t have to worry about all of the different environments, what is up-to-date and what the infrastructure looks like.”
Gatsby is another player in the JAMstack market, offering similar features through the GatsbyJS framework, though its platform notably lacks a content delivery network.
In its press release announcing the acquisition, Netlify said one of the reasons it chose to buy Gatsby was for its Valhalla…
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