Static Sites go all Hollywood
summary
Argues that static site generators plus hosted services actually replace heavy stacks for many sites and give faster, cheaper, more secure publishing with fewer failure points. Cites Jekyll powering a campaign site that serves about 18 million uniques and 82 million pageviews over six months and runs 60% faster; a Python static build for Google Year in Search handling 40 stories in 52 languages. Recommends Contentful, Netlify and Serge for content APIs, deployment and automation and warns about limits for personalization and high numbers of dynamic pages.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:45Context
- 4:25Complexity
- 5:20Simplicity
- 7:07Benefits
- 10:16Credibility
- 13:26Static site generators
- 15:09Style guides
- 18:20Serge
- 19:05Developer mindset
- 19:40Common complexity
- 21:14Other peoples complexity
- 23:56Contentful
- 24:43Decouple from Production
- 25:28Hosting with Benefits
- 26:54Limitations
- 27:43Simplification
- 28:11Perception
- 29:02The Jam Stack
- 30:11The Short Stack
- 30:34Summary
- 31:29Outro
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