# Server Islands

DevFeed: [Server Islands](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/server-islands-3313.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://astro.build/blog/future-of-astro-server-islands/>)

Author: Fred Schott; Matthew Phillips

Published: 2024-06-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Astro Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-astro-blog.md>)

Topics: [Astro](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/astro.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [personalization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/personalization.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Core Web Vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/core-web-vitals.md>), [Vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vercel.md>)

Tags: [astro](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/astro.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cdn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cdn.md>), [core-web-vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core-web-vitals.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [personalization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/personalization.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>)

## AI overview

Astro is exploring Server Islands, an architecture primitive that combines static, CDN-cached HTML page shells with dynamically rendered content. This approach aims to preserve the performance and simplicity of static pages while enabling personalization through deferred server-side rendering.

## Source excerpt

Part three of our series on The Future of Astro, covering a new island architecture pattern for dynamic content rendered inside of fast, CDN-cached static pages.