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Vercel’s framework-defined infrastructure provisions cloud resources while providing full transparency, from the initial build to every incoming request. Developers can track how static assets are distributed globally, functions handle ISR revalidation, and resources manage routing, server-side rendering, and more. As users visit your app, granular metrics reveal which resources were leveraged to serve their request. This series unpacks the Vercel Edge Network and associated resource allocation, exploring each stage of a request, and how Vercel streamlines the process. With a clear understanding of these metrics and optimization strategies, you can deliver better user experiences while improving resource consumption and reducing...

In today's AI-driven landscape, your business's competitive edge lies in how effectively you integrate AI into your product and workflows. This guide focuses on three critical aspects of building scalable AI applications: Read more Continue reading...

Recently, there was an issue affecting our customers when trying to purchase a domain containing non-English characters. This problem became apparent when these domain purchases consistently failed, creating a significant roadblock for users wanting to expand their online presence with internationalized domain names (IDNs). Read more Continue reading...

As publishers of leading independent games, the team at Devolver is never short on work. But as a small engineering team, they felt limited by their clunky infrastructure and were spending more time on system management than they needed. With Vercel, the Devolver team was able to cut time spent on system management and configuration by more than half, allowing them to bring game websites to life 73% faster. Soon after adopting Vercel, the team was even able to launch five websites during a 30-minute press conference without any issues. Read more Continue reading...

In 2014, the OpenID Foundation introduced a new standard for authenticating people online, known as OpenID Connect (OIDC). This standard was initially created to simplify the authentication process for users, providing a streamlined and secure way to log into various services. Today, Vercel leverages OIDC to enhance the security of backend connectivity, enabling developers to replace long-lived credentials with more secure, temporary tokens. Read more Continue reading...

Last year, we added storage solutions to our platform, introducing our first-party Blob and Edge Config, as well as partner solutions like Postgres by Neon and KV by Upstash. We heard your feedback—you want more providers and different types of integrations. Today, we’re launching the first version of the Vercel Marketplace. It supports storage solutions from Supabase, Redis, and EdgeDB, at the same price as going direct. These integrations come with features like integrated billing, direct connections to provider consoles, and more. Read more Continue reading...

McKinsey's latest AI survey shows 65% of organizations now regularly use AI — nearly double from just ten months ago, with many using it to increase efficiency in critical areas like customer support. At Vercel, we integrated AI into our support workflow. Our AI agent reduced human-handled tickets by 31%, allowing us to maintain high support standards while serving a growing customer base. Read more Continue reading...

React 19 is near. The React Core Team announced a React 19 release candidate (RC) this past April. This major version brings several updates and new patterns, aimed at improving performance, ease of use, and developer experience. Many of these features were introduced as experimental in React 18, but they will be marked as stable in React 19. Here’s a high-level look at what you need to know to be ready. Read more Continue reading...

Hello! I’m Aryan. I am currently a student at UC Berkeley, studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). This summer, I had the opportunity to be an intern at Vercel. It’s been an unforgettable experience. As my internship comes to a close and I head back to school, I want to share a behind-the-scenes look at what an internship at Vercel is like. Read more Continue reading...

Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a caching strategy that combines the perks of multiple rendering techniques to bring users dynamic content at cached speeds. This guide explores how ISR fits into your overall caching strategy, how it can benefit your architecture, and how to implement it effectively. We'll compare ISR to traditional caching methods and provide real-world examples to illustrate its advantages. Read more Continue reading...

As the world’s leading in-person car auction enterprise, Mecum Auction Company has sold some of the most famous vehicles in the world. And while their digital platform had capably evolved over the years, it was hitting its limit, hindering their ability to create listings quickly. With the help of digital agency Americaneagle.com, Mecum adopted a new, composable stack—giving them confidence that their website would be fast, performant, and reliable. Read more Continue reading...

Web apps today are judged on six core principles: speed, global presence, scalability, dynamism, reliability, and security. Users and businesses now expect excellence in all six categories, making them non-negotiable. As user experiences have become more engaging and dynamic, the limitations of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)—once the industry standards for application delivery—are becoming increasingly apparent. CDNs, designed for static content, fail to meet the demands of modern, interactive and real-time web applications. At the same time, while IaC enables programmatic management, its use for web applications often leads to building undifferentiated tooling and systems rather than dedicating...

The AI SDK is an open-source toolkit for building AI applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful UI integrations into leading web frameworks such as Next.js and Svelte. Read more Continue reading...

In any given week, Vercel Firewall blocks around 1 billion suspicious TCP connections, with some days seeing upwards of 7 billion malicious HTTP requests. Vercel's platform is designed to automatically mitigate DDoS attacks, blocking thousands of these threats every day to keep your site secure and operational without user intervention. Vercel is built to minimize disruptions and safeguard your resources from unnecessary costs by serving only legitimate traffic. Read more Continue reading...

High-performing web teams focus on innovation, not infrastructure. Vercel's framework-defined infrastructure accelerates developer velocity, allowing teams to build faster and more efficiently. By handling the heavy lifting of cloud infrastructure, Vercel's Frontend Cloud empowers teams to focus on coding user interfaces and logic. This enables them to meet the six core principles of web delivery: speed, global presence, scalability, reliability, security, and dynamism. With infrastructure managed, teams can streamline workflows and collaboration, delivering impactful products. Read more Continue reading...

At Vercel Ship, we introduced the new Web Application Firewall (WAF), an application-layer firewall that complements our platform-wide firewall. This enables our customers to implement custom or managed rulesets, such as protection against the OWASP Top 10 risks. Since its release, Vercel’s WAF has blocked billions of malicious requests, demonstrating its resilience and reliability across a wide variety of use cases, from small startups to large enterprise deployments. Read more Continue reading...

We’re sharing a first look at a new version of Vercel Functions with support for in-function concurrency that brings the best of servers to serverless functions. We’ve been testing this new version with customers and are seeing a 20%-50% reduction in compute usage and respective cost reduction without latency impact. It’s a serverless product optimized specifically for interactive workloads such as server-rendering of web pages, APIs, and AI applications. Vercel Functions continue to offer native Node.js support with accelerated cold-start performance based on V8 bytecode and instance pre-warming for production workloads. Read more Continue reading...

In any given week, Vercel blocks around 1 billion suspicious TCP connections, with some days seeing upwards of 7 billion malicious requests. The Vercel Firewall has been silently mitigating DDoS and Layer 3/4 attacks, but it's been operating as a black box with limited transparency. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel Ship 2024 was all about the power of the frontend cloud, highlighting the integrations, ecosystem, and teams building the web's best products. Read more Continue reading...

Mintlify, a platform for public documentation, is a toolkit for developers to write, maintain and host documentation. The platform offers a flexible solution that can be used out of the box or customized to fit specific needs, enabling developers to create help guides, tutorials, and API references. Read more Continue reading...