In our previous blog post, we introduced Hive as Vercel’s low-level compute platform, powering all of our builds. However, some builds come with unique security requirements. For these, Hive integrates seamlessly with Vercel's Secure Compute, which enables teams to securely connect with their backends through private connections without compromising performance. Since moving Secure Compute to Hive, provisioning times have dropped from 90 seconds to 5 seconds and build performance has improved by an average of 30%, delivering both speed and reliability for even the most sensitive workloads.

AI crawlers have become a significant presence on the web. OpenAI's GPTBot generated 569 million requests across Vercel's network in the past month, while Anthropic's Claude followed with 370 million. For perspective, this combined volume represents about 20% of Googlebot's 4.5 billion requests during the same period. After analyzing how Googlebot handles JavaScript rendering with MERJ, we turned our attention to these AI assistants. Our new data reveals how Open AI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and other AI tools crawl and process web content. We uncovered clear patterns in how these crawlers handle JavaScript, prioritize content types, and navigate the web, which directly impact how AI tools understand and interact with modern web applications.

Every 100ms of latency can cost ecommerce applications up to 8% in sales conversion. At scale, this can cost millions in revenue. Complexity compounds as applications grow, making these performance issues harder to diagnose and fix. Audits help teams navigate these challenges systematically. This article covers strategies we've developed across hundreds of real-world audits.

As the largest self-storage company in the U.S., Extra Space Storage manages over 3,800 stores nationwide. Delivering a consistent, high-quality digital experience to their customers is essential, and their engineering team recognized the need for faster iteration and more stability in their customer acquisition channels—public websites and kiosks. However, their legacy architecture was creating bottlenecks, impacting time-to-market for new features, and slowing down development. By partnering with Vercel, Extra Space Storage was able to achieve their vision of improving their DevOps processes for their website and enable quicker customer feedback.

Last week at AWS re:Invent 2024, the Vercel team met with thousands of builders in the Developer Solutions Zone, celebrated v0's launch on AWS Marketplace, and hosted hundreds of customers and partners with various event activations. Now, we're taking our AWS Partnership further: Vercel has been selected for a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS—to deliver the next generation of AI-enabled developer tooling and experiences. This collaboration underscores the value of Vercel and AWS together as a one-stop shop for teams building AI experiences.

In any given week, Vercel Firewall blocks over one billion malicious connections—proactively safeguarding your app before the first request arrives. Defining access rules ensures your infrastructure scales only for legitimate traffic, keeping resources secure and associated costs in check. With Vercel, application protection is integrated into every step of the request lifecycle. It starts with the platform-wide Vercel Firewall—active by default for all users—and extends to Deployment Protection and the Web Application Firewall (WAF) which give you granular security control and defense-in-depth.

The Black Friday-Cyber Monday (BFCM) stakes are high. Billions of dollars are on the line with consumers racing to save money over the biggest shopping days of the year. This year, Vercel celebrated the success of our customers by building a live dashboard showing activity across the platform for BFCM.

Founded 30 years ago, this top global retailer has established itself as a leader in the sportswear and apparel industry. With a diverse product range that includes athletic performance gear, footwear, accessories, and casual apparel, the company is renowned for its commitment to innovation and quality. Listed on the NYSE, the retailer reported a revenue of almost 6 billion in 2024 and employs approximately 16,000 people worldwide. Despite a challenging retail environment, it continues to excel in ecommerce, showcasing a 3% growth in direct-to-consumer revenue to 2.3 billion, with ecommerce accounting for 41% of this segment.

Meter provides a full-stack networking solution that makes it easy for any business, organization, or school—of any size—to get access to the internet. They have two application layers built on top of their vertically integrated technical architecture: Meter Command, a generative UI for IT and Networking teams, and Meter Dashboard, their main web interface. Meter’s adoption of Vercel has enhanced performance, simplified workflows, and empowered their team to iterate rapidly—not only across Command and Dashboard, but throughout their interconnected stack of hardware, software, and operations.

Notion is a connected workspace that allows users to write, plan, and organize, all enhanced with built-in AI. With a platform as flexible as Notion, the challenge for their website team lies in communicating the vast range of use cases—from personal projects like planning trips to enterprise-level tasks like managing company documentation. That’s a huge total addressable market that attracts many millions of diverse visitors to their website every week. As these numbers continue to rapidly grow and personas expand, Notion needed a website capable of rapid iteration and experimentation to help their message resonate with more people.

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 costs.

Grep allows developers to quickly search code across over 500,000 public git repositories. With the acquisition, founder Dan Fox will also be joining Vercel’s AI team to continue building Grep to enhance code search for developers.