Planting the future

Field notes from the Fern team.

Engineering, Docs

Our largest docs sites now render ~6.4x faster

Our docs platform used to store each entire site as a single monolithic JSON object. Here's why that fell apart, and how we rebuilt storage so a one-page edit only touches the one page.

Sandeep DineshChris Broadfoot
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The words 'Making Fern faster' over a motion-blurred night landscape of grassy hills under a starlit sky.