Company
Date Published
Author
Lauren Sell
Word count
1312
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

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.