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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...

Viable is an AI company that analyzes customer feedback and presents insights to businesses to improve products and services. With just six engineers, they’ve already processed 3.8 million data points for businesses like Latch, Uber, and AngelList. Read more Continue reading...

Wunderman Thompson unlocks the potential of international brands through strategic, digital-led growth. As Web technologies rapidly evolve, the agency looks to Vercel to lay a consistent foundation for dynamic websites. “Normally, it’s not easy to sleep when you launch a website,” says Rodrigo Barona, Engineering and Design Manager at Wunderman Thompson. “But now, it’s not my business. It’s Vercel’s.” By handling the intricacies of a global, edge-ready network, integrations for the most popular stacks, and even live on-page collaboration, Vercel lets Wunderman Thompson focus on what it does best: “moving at the speed of culture.” Read more Continue reading...

Titles and headings on websites play a crucial role in helping users understand the content and context of a webpage. Unfortunately, these elements can often be difficult to read due to typographical anti-patterns, such as a single hanging word on the last line. To tidy up these "widows and orphans," React Wrap Balancer reduces the content wrapper to the minimum possible width before an extra line break is required. As a result, the lines of text stay balanced and legible, especially when the content is lengthy. Read more Continue reading...

Supabase is an open-source alternative to Firebase that provides all the backend features you need to ship a project in a weekend. Their growing 60-person development team has been using Next.js on Vercel from the beginning to quickly ship their documentation, marketing site, and dashboard to thousands users. Yet with a user base that continues to grow, the team is ready to ship even faster. Read more Continue reading...

AI is transforming how we build and communicate on the Web—nowhere seen more clearly than on Vercel. A stable diffusion search engine, a suite of AI-powered visual editing tools, and even a rejection generator are just a few of the new projects keeping us amazed. Whether you’re just starting out with AI or have experience in the field, let's explore how AI teams are building new projects, faster on Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

In 2021 they set out to create a new unified foundation to build their web experiences for years to come. Read more Continue reading...

Vercel's platform provides speed, reliability, and the convenience of not having to worry about setting up and maintaining your own infrastructure. But what exactly goes on behind the scenes when we deploy our projects to Vercel, and what happens when you make a request to a site on the platform? This post will go behind the scenes, explaining how Vercel builds and deploys serverless applications for maximum scalability, performance, and fast iterations. Read more Continue reading...

Hashnode, a blogging platform for the developer community built using Next.js, was born from the fundamental idea that developers should own the content they publish. A key component of that ownership is publishing articles on a custom domain—a feature the Hashnode team spent hours monitoring and maintaining themselves. That’s when they turned to Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

For Read.cv, showing is better than telling. The professional networking platform helps users add a more personal touch to the typical work profile—all made possible with Vercel and Edge Functions. Read more Continue reading...