Cloudflare acquires Linc to automate web app deployment>
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Cloudflare today acquired Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build apps, for an undisclosed amount. Cloudflare says this will accelerate development of its front-end JAMStack hosting platform â Cloudflare Pages â to enable âricherâ and âmore powerfulâ full-stack applications.

Linc and Cloudflareâs solution is the Frontend Application Bundle (FAB), a deployment artefact that supports a range of server-side needs, including static sites, apps with API routes, cloud functions, and server-side streaming rendering. A compiler generates a ZIP file that has two components: a server file that acts as a server-side entry point and an assets directory that stores the HTML, CSS, JS, images, and fonts that are sent to the client. When a FAB is deployed, itâs often split into these component parts and deployed separately. Assets are sent to a low-cost object storage platform with a content delivery network in front of it, and the server component is sent to dedicated serverless hosting.

The Linc acquisition comes after Cloudflare purchased S2 Systems, a Seattle-area startup developing a remote browser isolation solution. Itâs Cloudflareâs first purchase of 2020 and its fifth since 2014.
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