If you want a dead-simple Observability demo:
“Show me the top erroring routes right now.”
Click the route. Trace the request. Tie it to a deploy. Ship the fix.
Find it. Understand it. Fix it. 👇
www.netlify.com/guides/runni... 
From an empty folder to a full Prisma 7 app running on Prisma Postgres in 5 minutes.
You can follow the same steps here 📹👇
pris.ly/y/p7-quicks... The difference between panic and progress:
Before: “Something’s wrong. Anyone know what?”
After: “Errors spiked on /checkout right after deploy 1429.”
Observability is how you get answers without a 47-message Slack thread.
www.netlify.com/platform/obs... 
we've actually priced in all the externalities of car ownership but instead of having car owners pay for asthma treatment and environmental cleanup, it's a money transfer from idiots to local cartels also we've learned that one cannot use capitalism to limit consumption of cars
Liquid impressed me. Forgiving by design: parser accepts anything without errors, undefined vars render empty, user templates can't run insecure code.
I'm porting it to Zig. Goal: Liquid without Ruby, including Wasm. More themable software with that safety contract.
github.com/pepicrft/liquidz This is a great suggestion! We have a bunch of improvements for observability on our plate, and this is definitely one of them. How would you want it to work?
i think the zod equivalent might be like using codecs a lot more zod.dev/codecs - which already has some useful ones, but could be expanded a lot parsing with rich types starts to overlap with unmarshalling, which can be treacherous but maybe going halfway - rich types but strict schemas - is utopia? blog.rubygems.org/2017/10/09/u... ✨That’s the highlight reel. ✨ It’s all about tightening the loop from idea → live → fixed. What do you want to see Netlify ship next for agent workflows in 2026?
Skew Protection: pin user sessions to a specific deploy to prevent version mismatch breakage (free for everyone).
🧷 www.netlify.com/blog/introdu... Prerendering: serve fully rendered HTML to crawlers + AI tools that don’t execute client-side JS.
🕸️ www.netlify.com/blog/prerend... Observability: request metrics + function/edge execution + usage signals, in the Netlify dashboard, right after deploy.
📈 www.netlify.com/blog/introdu... AI Gateway: model access built into the platform — fewer “10 errands” (accounts/keys/billing) between code and shipping.
🧠 www.netlify.com/blog/ai-gate... Netlify DB: go from static UI → fullstack app without breaking flow (including agent-friendly provisioning).
🗄️ www.netlify.com/blog/netlify... Netlify MCP Server: agents can create projects, deploy apps, and manage settings via natural language prompts.
🔌 www.netlify.com/blog/netlify... Agent Runners: run Claude Code / Gemini CLI / Codex against your Netlify project with production context — no setup.
🤖 www.netlify.com/blog/agent-r... ✨2025 recap: what we shipped for agent workflows 👇✨ 🤖 Agent Runners 🔌 MCP Server 🗄️ Netlify DB 🧠 AI Gateway 📈 Observability 🌅 Prerendering 🧷 Skew Protection Links + why it matters in thread 🧵
what if zod or another parser introduced a way to parse into rich types? effect already has some of this: schema can serialize & deserialize a rich duration type instead of having some ambiguous integer which could me milliseconds.
could be cool?
macwright.com/2025/12/29/f... You keep using provider SDKs, but Netlify handles the credentials + routing via injected env vars/base URLs.
📄 Docs: docs.netlify.com/build/ai-gat... AI Gateway is basically “LLM access as a Netlify primitive.” It proxies model calls from Netlify runtime so you don’t need to maintain provider accounts + API keys across environments.
Cost: On Netlify, AI inference is priced off the underlying model provider costs, then converted into Netlify credits ($1 USD of model usage = 180 credits). OpenRouter generally passes through model pricing and adds a 5.5% fee.
Good Q. Both Netlify AI Gateway and OpenRouter give you a single API surface to multiple models. Main difference: Netlify AI Gateway is built into the deploy/runtime workflow on Netlify (so you can pair it with things like Functions/Edge + platform controls). OpenRouter is model-routing first.