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The Jamstack is a modern approach to building fast, secure, and cost-effective websites and apps. It combines the performance and security benefits of a static website, with the power and flexibility of headless CMS and a best-of-breed microservices architecture.
The Jamstack is a modern web development methodology that focuses on delivering fast and secure digital experiences for end users. The 'Jam' stands for:
The 'stack' refers to how these technologies are stacked together to deliver the end solution for your customers.
In our 20+ years of working in the digital space, we have all too often heard clients describing a common set of problems arising from their digital platform investment:
Any of these sound familiar? The Jamstack can help address these very real business problems.
At Luminary, we have summed up thebenefits of the Jamstack for businesses in the six 'Ss' of the Jamstack:
The Jamstack opens up limitless possibilities and combinations, but can make it difficult to know where to start! That's where we come in.
At Luminary we always take a step back and do a properdiscovery to ensure we know exactly what problem we're trying to solve before we reach straight for the toolbox. This enables us, and our clients, to work together on a completestrategy, and to be driven by the optimaluser experience (UX) that we need to create in order to achieve it.
Once we have a clear definition of the problem, our tech experts work their magic to architect a solution on the Jamstack. We identify the major requirements, and select the best tools available on the market to meet them. This typically covers a broad range of requirements that a digital project covers, such as content management, search, online forms, dynamic personalisation, marketing automation, data visualisation, cloud hosting, DevOps, and more advanced integration scenarios with CRMs or e-commerce platforms. Our solution architects confirm that all of these moving pieces are going to work nicely together, to produce the finalmicroservices architecture.
Luminary's Launchpad best-practice front-end development framework and component library allows us to rapidly bring your designs to life as a responsive, accessible, high-performing, and beautiful website. By using modern front-end development frameworks, combined with the latest static site generators, our Jamstack developers can integrate neatly with yourmartech stack using APIs while maintaining complete control over the markup.
AdvancedDevOpstools work behind the scenes to handle the immediate publishing of your content as it is updated, so you can focus on what you need to do in your preferred content management system or marketing automation platform, knowing that your Jamstack website will always be up to date and blazing fast.
One of the strengths of the Jamstack is the ability to utilise best-of-breed apps and tools to deliver the best possible digital experiences. Here are some of the apps and tools our Jamsack developers recommend.
You can be confident that you are in safe hands with Luminary. Meet some of our experienced Jamstack practitioners.
As our CTO, Andy heads up our developer teams, platforms and technology strategy.
As Technical Director, Emmanuel works closely with our clients while providing leadership and mentoring to the development team.
As Technical Director, Drew's focus is on supporting and mentoring our front end development and QA teams.
Sarah is Luminary's longest-serving front end developer, having joined Luminary back in 2004.
Andrew is responsible for the strategy, planning, management and implementation of technical infrastructure for Luminary and our clients.
Martina thrives on translating UI/UX wireframes and design into code and making them functional.
Tony is a certified CMS developer across Kentico Xperience and Optimizely, with a strong mastery of complex integrations.
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The Jamstack is a modern approach to building fast, secure, and cost-effective websites and apps. In this article Luminary MD Adam Griffith explains the six 'Ss' of the Jamstack – Speed, Stability, Scalability, Security, Serviceability and Simplicity – to show why this movement is now business ready.
12 May 2020
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There are a few questions we regularly field when introducing the concept of a Content as a Service to people. After explaining the terms 'headless' and 'microservices', we invariably hit the topic of online forms - a staple feature of any traditional web CMS, but curiously absent from the feature list of your modern-day headless CMS.
03 June 2022
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Need a way to serve the same content to a growing range of platforms? Headless content management systems are your answer.
10 October 2019
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Kontent.ai – formerly known as Kentico Kontent – is a headless CMS with native AI functionality, that provides easy-to-use content management tools for marketers. Luminary is a Kontent.ai Premium Partner and a global leader in its implementation.
Formerly known as IBM Watson, Acoustic is a suite of enterprise-level AI-enhanced services, applications and marketing tools. Luminary is an Acoustic Partner.
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For the second year running, Luminary has partnered with Kentico Kontent to produce The State of the Jamstack report. Here are our thoughts one year on.
08 June 2021
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When Cancer Council Australia (CCA) decided to rebuild its website, it wanted a tech partner that could mentor and guide it, not just execute and deliver a product. It found that partner in Luminary. Here’s a video and summary of the presentation CCA and Luminary CTO Andy Thompson gave at the 2020 Kontent Horizons conference.
17 December 2020
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Web Spotlight is a brand new add-on for Kontent by Kentico that brings many of the features marketers miss from traditional web content management systems into their pure headless CaaS platform, including a tree-based navigation structure, real-time preview and in-context editing of pages. And the good news is, it is super easy to set up, regardless of what language you used to implement your website.
07 September 2020
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Using a headless CMS for a website isn't going to hurt your SEO. It sure doesn't guarantee good results, but when implemented properly, it can be unbeatable.
19 November 2020
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Contentful is a headless, API-first content system that lets you create and distribute content to any platform. Luminary is a Contentful Partner Agency.
Contentstack is an enterprise-level headless content management system (CMS). Luminary is a certified Contentstack solution partner agency.
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