Company
Date Published
Author
Netlify
Word count
1570
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

ButcherBox, a delivery service for quality meats, recently transitioned from a PHP monolith to the Jamstack architecture, leveraging Netlify and Gatsby to improve page speed and performance, allowing them to deliver a site within an hour of conception. The company outgrew its WordPress plugin ecosystem and struggled with complex code and session state issues, leading to improved security and reduced complexity by separating frontend and backend functionality. With this new approach, ButcherBox gained agility and responsiveness, enabling faster iteration on features without impacting the user experience.