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Who is Netlify for?
The Netlify composable platform goes beyond developer productivity and is designed for the needs of architects, developers, security and compliance admins, cross-functional release partners, content authors, copywriters, as well as marketing and documentation teams.
Enterprises trust Netlify to help them ship to production faster, securely manage different site versions, and help content authors drive results faster with a highly customizable visual editor for publishing site content and layout changes.
# For Developers
- Ship to production faster
- Improve site performance and reliability
- Build the best experiences with Edge Functions, Background Functions, serverless functions, and cache control
- Optimize and transform images without impacting build times
- Fix failed deploys and build errors faster with Netlify’s AI-enabled suggested solutions for build/deploy failures
- Use modern frameworks more (or exclusively)
- Swap integrations and other services as needed so you can pick the best tool for the job
- Understand site performance for every deploy with build monitoring, site analytics, Real User Metrics, and Lighthouse scores
- Set up a log drain for your site, app, or store so you can use advanced monitoring tools
- Send custom notifications for Netlify activity to webhooks, email, or the Netlify App for Slack
- Give content authors a way to edit and manage content on their own
- Avoid engineering restrictions due to content silos
- Debug your sites faster with the Netlify Drawer’s debugging tools
- Focus on building innovative web experiences and creating differentiated value
# For Architects
- Use a trusted yet modern approach used by many sites, apps, and stores
- Migrate incrementally to a composable architecture while gaining early value
- Make migrations more low-risk with custom solutions built with the Netlify SDK to transition from a legacy monolith to more modern tooling in phased stages
- Get support from our top-notch Solutions Engineering team as you plan and execute your tech stack migration
- Simplify compliance with our Firewall Traffic Rules to block or allow traffic from specific IP addresses or countries
- Protect your backend with Private Connectivity
- Customize rate limit rules for sites and protect all sites with a rate limiting team policy
- Manage security needs with different ways to secure access to your production and preview sites
- Build with flexibility
- Store and retrieve unstructured data with Netlify Blobs
- Use the best components for different aspects of your business instead of compromising quality and efficiency to conform to a one-size-fits-all solution
- Optimize for reliability and speed
Learn more and talk with an expert 🏗️
- Learn the basics of composable architecture or understand the architectural principles with Guide to Composable Architecture
- Learn how others adopted the composable architecture
- Calculate the ROI of Netlify
- Check the blog for posts on composable architecture
- Talk with an expert
# For Security and compliance admins
- Confirm your organization’s compliance needs are met with the Netlify trust center
- Protect your backend with Private Connectivity
- Use SSO, SCIM, or Team login protection to protect access to your sites on Netlify
- Customize rate limiting for your sites and monitor site activity with log drains
- Require site visitors to enter a password or use another login to access a site or certain site content
- Block site traffic based on IP address or geolocation with Firewall Traffic Rules
- Beyond our automated DDoS protection, customize your site’s responses to site traffic above your defined threshold/limits with rate limiting rules
- Monitor your site’s security posture with our Security Scorecard
Some of these features may require a certain pricing plan.
# For cross-functional release partners
- Give feedback on preview sites with a visual feedback “toolbox” called the Netlify Drawer
- From a preview site, open issues in different issue-tracking tools, such as Linear, GitHub, Trello, and more. For example, request Design help in a new card in Trello and request QA testing help in a new issue in Linear.
- Stay updated on feedback on a preview site and send feedback notifications to a Slack workspace with our Netlify App for Slack
Give better and faster feedback 💬
Check out our Reviewer Quickstart guide
# For content authors, copywriters, marketers
- Ship campaigns and drive business impact faster
- No-code content editing and publishing in real-time
- Build landing pages
- Create templates for content
- Add pages, move and adjust site components that your frontend team fully customizes
- Manage SEO metadata
- Add and manage forms
- Run experiments
- Streamline content maintenance without CMS limitations, such as for localization or different site versions
Explore our visual site editor 🚁
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# For documentation teams
- Use docs-as-code with your preferred Git hosting provider, such as GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, or Azure
- Review site changes from a pull/merge request in a Deploy Preview
- Manage different versions of your site with branch deploys and custom subdomains using Netlify DNS
- Delegate just your docs site to Netlify DNS without delegating the apex domain (
docs.example.comwithout delegatingexample.com) - Manage redirects with Netlify redirects support
- Publish changes without delays and coordinate overlapping docs site changes with site deploy management
- Optimize docs engineering time
Explore docs tooling and practices 📖
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