love grows for cloud functions • The Register

A survey of Jamstack developers shows rising use and popularity for cloud functions and the TypeScript programming language – along with a warning for entrenched content management system WordPress.

Jamstack or JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs and Markup) is an approach to web development that is based on static pages with dynamic content rendered by JavaScript calling web services. This makes it amenable to optimisation by content delivery networks – although it may shift the performance burden from web server to whatever server-side code lies behind the APIs.

The Netlify survey was…