Netlify today announced that it has acquired Quirrel, an open-source service for managing and executing serverless functions.

Netlify has announced Netlify Graph, giving developers a more unified way of authenticating and building using APIs.

Netlify's serverless approach means you can't install your own web and development tools in the usual way. Fortunately, Netlify's functions, APIs and plugins give you plenty of alternative options.

Netlify: Jamstack forms the basis of this CDN and back-end services pairing Vercel is often spoken about in the same breath as Netlify, a similar platform based on the Jamstack development model.