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Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the industry-standard practice for provisioning infrastructure in a repeatable and reliable way. Framework-defined infrastructure (FdI) is an evolution of IaC, where the deployment environment automatically provisions infrastructure derived from the framework and the applications written in it. The best way to understand it is that a build-time program parses the source code written to a framework, understands the intent behind the code, and then automatically generates the IaC configuration needed to run the software. This means more predictable, lower cost, and lower risk DevOps through truly serverless—dare we say, infrastructureless—architecture. In this article, we’ll explain how framework-defined...

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A/B testing and experiments help you build a culture of growth. Instead of guessing what experiences will work best for your users, you can build, iterate, and adapt with data-driven insights to produce the most effective UI possible. In this article, you'll learn how we built a high-performance experimentation engine for vercel.com using Next.js and Vercel Edge Config, allowing our developers to create experiments that load instantly with zero Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) and a great developer experience. Read more Continue reading...

Super is the easiest way to create a website using nothing but Notion. In less than a minute, Super allows you to build a sleek, easy-to-manage site with instant page loads, SEO optimization, and zero code. CEO and Founder Jason Werner switched to Next.js and Vercel from Gatsby and Netlify early on, and has never looked back. “Because Vercel is the creator and maintainer of Next.js, I know the hosting solution and features will always be perfectly integrated with the framework. It just pairs so well” says Werner. Werner uses Vercel’s API to let his users add or remove custom domains to their Super projects. With the API, he is also able to detect any configuration changes in his users' domains and update it in real time. Read more...

The field of artificial intelligence continues to take the world by storm. Huge strides have been made in text and image generation through tools like ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. It’s spawned a wave of exciting AI startups, many of which we’re seeing built with Vercel and Next.js. One of the most exciting developments in the AI space is GPT-3, a cutting-edge natural language processing model developed by OpenAI. With its ability to understand and generate human-like text, GPT-3 has the potential to disrupt how we perform many of our tasks. In this blog post, we’re going to break down how to build GPT-3 Apps with OpenAI, Next.js, and Vercel Edge Functions. We’ll do this by building twitterbio.com—first with serverless...

Your software delivery is only as fast as the slowest part of your toolchain. As you and your teams work towards optimizing your deployment pipelines, it's important to make sure the speed of your continuous integration (CI) automations keep pace with your developers. Read more Continue reading...

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“Why migrate a perfectly functioning website to a new framework? Will the end user benefit from all this, or is it just to satisfy the development team?” We recently helped a client work through this decision process during a redesign of their entire web experience. Read more Continue reading...

Runway is an applied AI research company providing next-generation creation tools to users around the world. As a small company that prioritizes speed and innovation, every second counts. Read more Continue reading...

There's plenty to be excited about with the launch of Next.js 13, from the release of the automatically self-hosted @next/font to the highly-optimized next/image component. Today, we'll talk about the app directory, and how React Server Components and nested layouts save time for developers and users alike when it comes to fetching data and serving it on Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

Indent is a security company that enables teams to perform critical business operations faster and more securely. They help organizations like HackerOne, Modern Treasury, and PlanetScale manage temporary access to cloud infrastructure for engineering teams and admin escalation for IT and security teams. One of the key selling points for their customers is an easy-to-use experience for everyone at a company to request, approve, and revoke access from Slack or their web dashboard. Indent turned to Next.js to provide unparalleled developer experience and a performant end-user experience for their application and public-facing website. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel Cron Jobs can be used with Vercel Functions to: Read more Continue reading...

If you’ve experienced a new technology for the first time at an exhibit or event, the talented technologists at Globacore, an award-winning digital agency based in Toronto, might have introduced you. Globacore specialized in creating interactive experiences for physical spaces, like trade shows and offices, that stretched the laws of technology and human imagination for global brands like Acura, the IEEE, Volkswagen, and Samsung. “We catch people’s attention with cutting-edge technology that they’ve never seen, much less experienced,” says Dave Boyle, Head of Development at Globacore. Read more Continue reading...

After going from $13M to $100M in revenue in two years, HR platform Rippling needed a frontend stack as fast and flexible as its innovative solutions. As they scaled to over 600 pages, engineer Robert Schneiderman realized that a fullstack WordPress solution wouldn't be able to handle their stakeholders' rapid iteration needs while maintaining the performance their customers require. By leveraging Next.js and Vercel alongside their WordPress headless CMS, Rippling was able to build a solution that kept developers, content creators, and customers happy. As the company grows, teams across Rippling are empowered to make the changes they need. Over 90% of site changes are deployed by stakeholders immediately, giving Schneiderman the...

Trusted by companies like Caterpillar and Render, Makeswift prides itself on providing easy visual or no-code Next.js site builders for their clients. When their small team began struggling with lengthy build times and a subpar dev experience, they turned to Turborepo. After adopting Turborepo, Makeswift improved overall CI pipeline time by 65%. Read more Continue reading...

Search engine optimization (SEO) lets customers find and trust you more easily. And yet, improving your application's SEO is too often an opaque process. When SEO success feels like magic, you’re not always sure how to repeat or better it. In this article, we'll demystify SEO, clarifying some of the most technical aspects of the process. SEO doesn't have to be a chore, and with Next.js on Vercel as your solid foundation, you're ready to build up best practices, seeing exponential gains in the process. So, let’s start from the beginning. Read more Continue reading...

Plenti is a technology-led consumer lending and investment company that helps borrowers bring their big ideas to life. Established in Australia in 2014, Plenti has funded over $900m of loans to over 55,000 borrowers and has attracted over 22,000 registered investors. Consumers hold financial services providers to high standards, so a Vercel and Next.js frontend was instrumental in transforming their brand and giving their users a trustworthy experience. Because of this, migrating from their WordPress-based monolithic stack and launching a composable Next.js frontend on Vercel was Plenti’s top tech priority as they approached their rebrand and IPO. And they did this all with a one-developer team. Read more Continue reading...

Before today, developers had to choose between either fully static or fully dynamic pages. With Next.js 13.2, we’re excited to announce the Next.js Cache (beta) and the brand-new Vercel Data Cache (beta). This enables caching only part of your page as static data, while fully dynamically rendering the rest of your application, including accessing real-time and personalized data. Read more Continue reading...

The web is any traveler’s first stop when it comes to planning vacations. Cruise Critic (a subsidiary of Tripadvisor) knows just how essential review sites are to today’s traveler; the company serves six million visitors every month. Growing traffic meant that Cruise Critic needed to evaluate their application stack as well as their development workflow in order to scale. Read more Continue reading...