Netlify Announces Acquisition Of Quirrel To Extend Serverless Functions Capabilities
Feb 01, 2022•over 3 years ago
Acquiring Company
Netlify, Inc.
Acquired Company
Quirrel
Description
Netlify, the workflow for the modern web, today announced the acquisition of Quirrel, an open source solution and service for managing and scheduling the execution of serverless functions and jobs. Simon Knott, founder of Quirrel and maintainer of Blitz.js, will join Netlify to build scheduling functionality in the Netlify platform as well as continue work as an open source maintainer.
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