What are the current software development trends that have contributed to the rise of Jamstack, and why has it emerged as a prominent technology now?

If you went to a typical website 10 years ago, you’d have to spend a lot of time waiting for it to load. Google, in particular, really began to push web performance around the time that mobile devices came into prominence. Over the same period, we started to see a more transactional web, also demanding better performance.

But I don’t think Jamstack sites would have come about if it weren’t for Github. Not only was the first prominent static site generator, Jekyll, created by a Github founder seeking a simpler way to publish a site, but Github made Git a part of every developer’s daily existence. Early static site generators primarily used Git (and practically speaking, Github or other visual tools) as a data store.