December 2018 Summaries

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental component of the Internet, enabling computers to locate websites. Ensuring DNS availability is critical for companies as a single network can become vulnerable to malicious attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Netlify has introduced a premium DNS redundancy feature for Enterprise customers, providing an additional set of DNS servers isolated from its main network, ensuring domain name resolution and providing an extra layer of resilience. This feature is easily managed through Netlify's DNS management, automatically synchronizing information across both networks.

The Netlify integration with Zapier was announced in November 2018 and has since become the third most popular integration launched in the last year, according to Zapier. The integration's success is attributed to Netlify's powerful yet simple workflows for publishing and maintaining sites, which have gained popularity as deployment automation becomes more standard. The integration aims to save customers from implementing code, webhooks, and API keys when connecting their sites to apps, and users have responded with amazing automations. New triggers and actions for the integration are being rolled out, including Deploy Started and Deploy Failed triggers, allowing users to create custom "Zaps" to connect services to Netlify in more ways than ever before.

The post discusses the implementation of authentication in a web application using Netlify's open-source GoTrue JS library. The author starts by explaining the general flow of a basic login/logout process and then dives into the implementation details using VueJS. They define routes, components, and states for the application, including actions for signing up, logging in, and logging out. The authentication methods are implemented using Vuex and GoTrue JS, with the confirmation step tightly coupled with the login flow. The author emphasizes the importance of never compromising on security when it comes to authentication.

We are happy to announce the recent launch of our GitHub App integration, which provides more granular repository permissions, better handling of deploy keys, webhooks, and deploy notifications. The new integration allows users to give Netlify access to specific organizations and repositories rather than all of their repositories and organizations, with added flexibility to add or remove repo access as needed. This change also means that webhooks and deploy keys are now managed automatically by the installation, reducing moving parts for a simpler setup, while comments, commit status, and other GitHub notifications are now posted under "Netlify" instead of personal accounts. Additionally, deploy summaries are now shown using the Checks API, providing more insight into every commit and Pull Request. Existing sites linked to a GitHub repo will be automatically upgraded to the new app with minimal user interaction, making it easy for users to take advantage of this feature.