What is Gatsby Incremental Builds?

Incremental Builds have been introduced on Gatsby Cloud, offering a transformative advancement in static site generation by allowing updates to be made with remarkable speed and efficiency. This new feature rebuilds only the necessary components of a website following data changes, reducing build times to under 10 seconds and providing up to a 1000x improvement over traditional methods that require complete site rebuilds. This innovation addresses the long-standing challenge of slow build times which have historically limited the use of static site generators like Gatsby. It promises to bridge the gap between developer preferences for static architecture and marketers' needs for dynamic content management systems, potentially redefining how the web operates by combining the benefits of both static and dynamic site models. The release follows years of development and is now available in public beta, marking a significant step forward in real-time web deployments while maintaining the simplicity and robustness of static sites.