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excerpt: We sat down with Cassidy Williams to talk about her background as a developer. Then we talked about the cool new Next.js on Netlify hosting feature.
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start: May 26, 2021
title: Hosting Next.js on Netlify
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### Questions

1. Can you tell us a little bit about your journey in technology?
2. You talked recently about how you are an introvert and that you just started speaking and writing to break out of some of this.
3. What makes Next.js different than hosting something like Gatsby?
4. What are the new changes Netlify has made to improve hosting for Next.js?
5. Are there any drawbacks to hosting on Netlify over Vercel?
6. Are Netlify Functions actually AWS Lambdas?

## Additional Links

- [Netlify's Next.js Plugin](https://github.com/netlify/netlify-plugin-nextjs)
- [Cassidy's Netlify Blog posts (cass.run/nb)](https://www.netlify.com/authors/cassidoo/)
- [Enterprise Next.js 10 on Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-announces-next-js-integration-enabling-next-js-10-for-enterprise-teams/)
