June 2019 Summaries

Beth Pollock and Luis Ugarte of Citrix shared their journey from a legacy web management system to the JAMstack and Netlify, executing a massive migration in mere months ahead of schedule. The new platform resulted in a 65% cost savings, faster page loads, improved customer satisfaction, and enabled crowd-sourcing, use of common tools, automated QA and publishing. The company's documentation site serves over 3.5 million users annually and features localized content in eight languages. Prior to the migration, Citrix used a monolithic web-based enterprise CMS that fell short, resulting in slow response times, no real PDF support, and subpar search. The new platform powered by Netlify is more agile, with changes easily made to the front or back end, and improved performance, including faster page load times and average server connection time improvements. The migration also led to increased user satisfaction, better search, enabling offline work, and PDF output built from source along with the site.

With high-profile data breaches becoming regular occurrences, companies need innovative security solutions to protect themselves from security vulnerabilities. Very Good Security (VGS) offers a unique approach called Zero Data, which enables companies to interact with sensitive data throughout its entire lifecycle without possessing the data itself. The VGS add-on for Netlify allows developers to collect credit card data and other sensitive information in a PCI-compliant manner, protecting personally identifiable information and healthcare data. By using this add-on, companies can achieve instant compliance, reduce their risk exposure, and focus on what they do best, while also inheriting VGS' security posture. The add-on works by redacting and aliasing form data in real-time, keeping systems out of compliance scope. Developers can securely send the data to third parties using the pre-defined VGS integrations or configuring their outbound connection in the VGS Dashboard. With the VGS add-on, developers can take their data collection and security posture to the next level, quickly achieving compliances such as PCI and SOC2 while spending less time dealing with security headaches.

Netlify has introduced a new feature allowing users to cancel active builds from the admin UI with a couple of clicks. This feature was requested by users and is intended to prevent frustrated moments when a build fails or runs slowly. The introduction of this feature aims to enhance user experience, provide more control over builds, and welcome feedback and suggestions for further improvements.