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0 pointskilburn3y ago0 comments

> Meanwhile, Gatsby Inc have created very powerful build and content orchestration tooling which is currently only available to Gatsby.js users. This acquisition will result in those capabilities being made available to any frameworks further helping all comers to the frameworks landscape.

This sounds ridiculous to me. The "powerful build and content orchestration tooling" of Gatsby Inc. is basically the same stuff that everyone else is doing in this space. This includes:

- The traditional Gatsby competitors (Vercel, GH Pages).

- Heroku, Fly.io and similar.

- Cloud-specific options such as AWS Amplify.

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phawksworth3y ago

I don't quite agree. Gatsby Inc have been doing a ton of work in this area, and it is really impressive. It's one of the reasons that its platform has been such a draw to larger companies with more complex data and content sourcing needs.

Theo had a pretty perceptive take on this on his stream yesterday. Worth a look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJc9UYva46I&t=5384s

Meanwhile, with so many people talking about the acquisition as if Netlify purely acquired the Gatsby.js framework, I find it helpful to frame it like this:

Gatsby Inc is to Gatsby.js as Vercel is to Next.js

Netlify acquired Gatsby Inc

kilburnOP3y ago

I understand that you're a DX at Netlify and your job is to advocate for whatever tech happens to be on your backyard. You openly acknowledged it and I thank you for it.

However, there is still a line that, when crossed, turns you into a regular old spammer. You are walking _very_ close to that line.

The Valhalla platform was "launched" 2 months ago. Even today there's ZERO public technical documentation on it. You can only find a bunch of marketing slides, SEO-ridden blog posts etc. saying that it's great, plus a video showing a few queries against a regular GraphQL server.

Please stop pretending that this quasi-vaporware platform is the best thing since french fries. Thanks.

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