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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...

We recently shipped a new Rust-based core for Vercel Functions to improve startup times. Today, we are announcing a new experimental feature to further reduce startup latency for large applications, resulting in up to 27% faster cold starts. Read more Continue reading...

When Hollywood giants and global brands collaborate on video, they demand a seamless, high-performing experience — and Frame.io, an Adobe company, delivers. Read more Continue reading...

In March 2024 Interaction to Next Paint (INP) became part of Google’s Core Web Vitals, a set of metrics reporting on user experience of web pages based on field data, and used in Google’s search ranking. Read more Continue reading...

At our annual end-user conference, Vercel Ship, we hosted a panel discussion on AI for enterprise teams featuring Paige Bailey (Google), Sunny Madra (Groq), Miqdad Jaffer (OpenAI), and moderated by Sabrina Halper (Tomorrow Talk). The panel of experts shared how customers are leveraging AI technologies to: Read more Continue reading...

We’ve been listening to your feedback and working hard to expand the capabilities of the AI SDK while improving its existing functionality. Today, we’re launching AI SDK 3.2. Read more Continue reading...

At Chick-fil-A restaurants, the race is on to get orders to customers quickly with quality and care, which makes every efficiency gain a win. Creating software that not only solves problems but also exceeds users' expectations has transformed Chick-fil-A's internal tools. Read more Continue reading...

In 2023, Vercel Functions added support for streaming HTTP responses. This feature has been enabled for frameworks like Next.js (App Router), SvelteKit, Remix, and more. We've been progressively rolling out streaming to more frameworks over the past two years, and we're beginning to roll out streaming for all functions and compatible frameworks. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel Functions run code in response to user traffic without the need to manage your own infrastructure, provision servers, or manage hardware. Read more Continue reading...

Turbopack is a new JavaScript/TypeScript bundler we’ve been cooking at Vercel. Building on 10+ years of learnings from webpack, we want to build a bundler that can be used with many frameworks. We’re moving the Turbopack codebase into the Next.js repository—and wanted to share an update on our progress with Turbopack so far, as well as where we’re headed. Read more Continue reading...

Web rendering has evolved from simple server-rendered HTML pages to highly interactive and dynamic applications, and there are more ways than ever to present your app to users. Static Site Generation (SSG), Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), and experimental Partial Prerendering (PPR) have all been developed to optimize performance, SEO, and user experience in various situations. Read more Continue reading...

With over $1B in revenue flowing through their digital properties, Elkjøp (Elgiganten), Nordic subsidiary of Currys PLC and leading consumer electronics retailer in the region, knew their digital presence needed to reflect their in-store commitment to innovation and excellence. Their previous ecommerce platform, built on Angular and self-hosted on Kubernetes, had become a source of frustration for both customers and internal teams. Slow page loads, SEO struggles, and inefficient developer experience were impacting the bottom line and hindering their ability to deliver the exceptional online shopping experience their customers deserved. Read more Continue reading...

We recently introduced a new Flags SDK that allows using feature flags, in Next.js and SvelteKit, and works with any feature flag provider—or when using no flag provider at all. It's not meant to be a competitor to other feature flag providers. Instead, it’s a tool that sits between your application and the source of your flags, helping you follow best practices for using feature flags and experiments, keeping your website fast. Follow along below to get started with the Flags SDK, beginning with a simple feature flag to more sophisticated cases, discussing tradeoffs along the way. Read more Continue reading...

Understanding how search engines crawl, render, and index web pages is crucial for optimizing sites for search engines. Over the years, as search engines like Google change their processes, it’s tough to keep track of what works and doesn’t—especially with client-side JavaScript. Read more Continue reading...

Beyond Menu is a popular food delivery service in the US that connects restaurants and diners. Their Next.js app is deployed on Vercel and serves millions of hungry visitors every month. To scale their development, they decided to adopt feature flags for gradual rollouts, instant rollbacks, A/B testing, trunk-based development and easier collaboration both internally and with beta users. They knew they needed to evaluate feature flags and A/B tests on both the server and the client. And since they used the App Router, the solution needed to work with React Server Components, Client Components and different rendering modes like static, dynamic and partial prerendering. At Beyond Menu, every millisecond impacts conversion, so they...

Let's explore how to block traffic with the Firewall, set up soft and hard spend limits, apply code-level optimizations, and more to protect your app against bad actors. If you’re on our free tier, you don’t need to worry. When your app passes the included free usage, it is automatically paused and never charged. Read more Continue reading...

Implementing AI in your business can be challenging due to the rapid pace of change, the complexity of integration, and the need for specialized skills. This guide helps leaders identify and evaluate AI use cases. We'll also show you how Vercel's Frontend Cloud and AI SDK can speed up your AI projects. Companies like Tome, Chick-fil-A, Chatbase, Runway, and Suno are already using these tools to bring AI into their apps and workflows. Read more Continue reading...

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

On August 7, 2024, Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions experienced a significant outage affecting many customers. We sincerely apologize for the service disruption. Vercel’s platform is designed to minimize the risk of global downtime. As standard practice, we use staggered rollouts for both code and configuration changes. Every aspect of our infrastructure is designed to gracefully fail over to the next available region in the event of an incident, and ensures no single point of failure across infrastructure components. However, on Wednesday, an upstream provider for a subset of our compute infrastructure went into a globally erroneous configuration state. This event tested our infrastructure's resilience and how we respond...

Vercel is committed to providing a secure and reliable platform for hosting websites and applications—across all industries. But this can be challenging with industry-specific regulations, especially for healthcare organizations and entities that process protected health information (PHI). Read more Continue reading...