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Gatsby’s data layer makes rebuilds precise and efficient. This is how we can publish CMS changes to the CDN in one second — even for very large sites. The data layer also helps Gatsby scale to large sites rebuilding sites as much as 20x faster than other SSGs.
As I’m sure you know, Gatsby is absolutely brills for statically generating web pages using any type of data from any kind of data source. In this post I’ll be explaining how to fetch data from the New York Times Archive API and using two of Gatsby’s built in methods to add the data to Gatsby’s global data layer.
Data is hard right? I think so too, and with Gatsby there’s more than one way to boil that egg so in this series of blog posts I plan to walk you through the various methods you can use and explain ways you might like to use them.