Off the Bit
Tools: Netlify
Category: Hosting and cloud
Site: netlify.com
Netlify
Static hosting with build pipelines, edge functions and preview deploys. One of the two that defined the category.
Made 'push to deploy' the default expectation.
What it is sold for
Deploying a site straight from a git branch.
Same shelf
The rest of hosting and cloud, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Adaptable did not answerTemplate-driven deployment of applications and databases. The domain no longer resolves.
- The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
- Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
- Sandboxes, queues and model inference with fast cold starts, sold on how quickly a container becomes ready.
- A control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs distributed applications without requiring an operations team.
- DigitalOcean's managed application hosting, deploying from a repository without cluster management.
- A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.
- Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.
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