Company
Date Published
Author
Charlotte Dillon
Word count
2267
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Twilio, a company that has experienced strong growth, recently migrated its developer interface, Twilio Console, to the Jamstack architecture. The team faced challenges with their previous micro-frontend architecture, which was causing slow render times due to server-side rendering and multiple hops across oceans for users in different regions. To address these issues, they adopted the Jamstack principles of pre-rendering and decoupling, using Netlify as a platform. This migration has resulted in significant performance improvements, including 30x faster initial page load times and 50x more frequent deployments. The new architecture also enables better collaboration among teams and reduces meta-work for engineers, allowing them to focus on solving customer problems. With this change, Twilio has achieved a smoother development workflow, improved global performance, and enhanced the overall user experience.