What does the markup stand for ? I get JavaScript and Apis.

Reading about it, I realized I've built stuff like this for a long time. I built websites with Hugo and other static HTML generators before that, adding React components to make some pages dynamic and calling into an API for some of the user interaction. The simplest case of this was a contact form in React which posted to /api/contact, a simple Ruby server which sent emails.

Some "dynamic" server side content was also easily included in a cronjob. That way I fetched the Twitter feed of a few accounts and rendered this into the static HTML.

I did it, because it was really fast to build, could scale, development and deployment was easy for the HTML, etc.

What I didn't had at the time was FaaS and I think the architecture could benefit from this. I had Docker containers running the API and the reverse proxy needed to do some routing, so I still had a server running, but I didn't need a database. I had to teach the marketing department how to write Markdown in GitLab editors, though.