How does Netlify work under the hood?

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How does Netlify work under the hood? #36

Open crgeary opened 5 years ago

crgeary commented 5 years ago

About me

My name: Christopher Geary
I've used Netlify: lots

My question in a little more detail

How does the Netlify platform work under the hood? How does your dashboard work? What software do you use? How does code get from Github to the end user? How do you handle multi-cloud etc? How does your Lambda function deployments/versioning work.

AWS has series called "This is my architecture" where you get an overview of how others are using AWS. I'm curious to hear what Netlify's version of this would be.

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You're the best.

DirtyF commented 5 years ago

If you haven't, be sure to check @calavera tech blog posts:

talves commented 5 years ago

✨✨✨✨ Lots of Magic ✨✨✨✨

philhawksworth commented 5 years ago

Gerald and I could go into some detail. But I think getting some of the deeper insights from others in the team would be great. Let's see if we can proxy some deeper questions for Matt / Ryan / David!

sylvain101010 commented 4 years ago

Hi @philhawksworth , As fan of netlify's magic, I'm also frustrated to not understand how it works in details :laughing: so I have a few precise questions:

How the edge servers works? I understand that they serve files according to merkle trees, but how the merkle trees are pushed to (or pulled) all the edges servers? And how all the routing configuration (redirects, which domains are mapped to which merkle tree) is pushed to those edge server?
How do you decide how long a file content is cached on edge servers?
How TLS certificates are instantly replicated to all the edge servers?

Thank you for the good work, Netlify is truly awesome!