# Community ## Featured articles - [ 10 MarchSecurity ## How we run Vercel's CDN in front of Discourse Vercel's CDN can front any application, not just those deployed natively on the platform, and it's simple to set up. This allows you to add firewall protection, DDoS mitigation, and observability to platforms like Discourse or WordPress without migrating them completely. The Vercel Community is an example of this architecture. It is a Discourse application hosted elsewhere, but we proxy it ourselves via Vercel's CDN, which both protects the app and gives us access to useful features in Vercel's website stack: Web Analytics gives us anonymized, cookie-free demographic and referrer data, so we can see where users are coming from and what they're looking for. Firewall gives us DDoS protection and has automatically prevented several attacks in the last year. Bot Management lets us block malicious scrapers while allowing trusted crawlers to index the forum and allow community posts to show up in ChatGPT searches. Some parts of the community platform, like Vercel Community live sessions, ru Jacob ParisDX Engineer ](/blog/how-we-run-vercels-cdn-in-front-of-discourse) - [ 27 FebruaryCommunity ## Keeping community human while scaling with agents At Vercel, our developer community is at the heart of everything we do. It's how we stay closest to the people using what we build. As our community grew, automation helped us scale. But questions still got lost, routing took time, and context switching pulled us away from the work that actually required our expertise. And automation could never help with the things that mattered most, the moments where you really connect with someone and help them. You can't use AI to replicate the feeling of talking to a person who really cares. So we built agents to take over the routing, triage, and follow-ups that don't need a human. We call this the Community Guardian. Let's talk about what it does, how we built it, and how anyone, including non-engineers, can ship agents too. The Community Guardian operations layer When a new post comes in, the Guardian analyzes it, checks for duplicates, and assigns it to the team member with the right specialty and bandwidth. Each person handles up to 10 quest Pauline P. NarvasHead of Community Platforms ](/blog/keeping-community-human-while-scaling-with-agents) - [ 28 AprilGeneral ## 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator recap On April 16th, 39 teams took the stage to pitch investors at Demo Day. During the prior six weeks, founders worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the Vercel team, our partners, and industry leaders to shape their ideas into the next generation of AI applications. Six weeks with the 2026 cohort Teams from around the world joined the 2026 cohort, building agents, developer tools, consumer apps, and vertical AI for finance, security, healthcare, and robotics. Each week, the cohort joined two sessions: a hands-on technical workshop and a fireside chat with an external speaker. The workshops covered the technical side of building AI products, from agents and models to deployment and scale. The fireside chats brought in industry leaders, Vercel experts, and investors. Speakers included Peter Steinberger (OpenAI/OpenClaw) and the Windsurf team, with topics ranging from the state of AI to pricing, legal, sales, marketing, and fundraising. Builder day Halfway through the program, the cohort came Alli Pope, Caroline Ciaramitaro, and 1 other ](/blog/2026-vercel-ai-accelerator-recap) ## Blog posts - [ 29 JuneCommunity ### Vercel Open Source Program: Spring 2026 cohort Amy EganDX Engineer ](/blog/vercel-open-source-program-spring-2026-cohort) - [ 17 MarchCommunity ### Vercel Open Source Program: Winter 2026 cohort Alli PopeDirector of Marketing Programs and Vercel Media ](/blog/vercel-open-source-program-winter-2026-cohort) - [ 27 FebruaryCommunity ### Keeping community human while scaling with agents - [ 21 NovemberCommunity ### Vercel Open Source Program: Fall 2025 cohort Kap Sev, Gabby Shires ](/blog/vercel-open-source-program-fall-2025-cohort) - [ 31 JulyCommunity ### Vercel Open Source Program: Summer cohort Kap SevHead of Developer Community ](/blog/summer-2025-oss-program) - [ 12 MayCommunity ### The spring 2025 cohort of Vercel’s Open Source Program ](/blog/spring25-oss-program) - [ 25 OctoberCommunity ### Recap: Next.js Conf 2024 Lee Robinson, Delba de Oliveira ](/blog/recap-next-js-conf-2024) - [ 3 SeptemberCommunity ### Transforming customer support with AI: How Vercel decreased tickets by 31% Alina WeinsteinSr. Product Marketing Manager ](/blog/transforming-customer-support-with-ai-how-vercel-decreased-tickets) - [ 16 MayCommunity ### Securing data in your Next.js app with Okta and OpenFGA Sam BellenPrincipal Developer Advocate at Auth0 ](/blog/securing-data-in-your-next-js-app-with-okta-and-openfga) - [ 29 NovemberCommunity ### Guide to fast websites with Next.js: Tips for maximizing server speeds and minimizing client burden Seif GhezalaTinloof Co-founder ](/blog/guide-to-fast-websites-with-next-js-tips-for-maximizing-server-speeds) - [ 25 JulyCommunity ### Introducing React Tweet Luis Alvarez, Steven Tey, and 1 other ](/blog/introducing-react-tweet) - [ 13 JulyCommunity ### Iterating from design to deploy: the shape of future builders Alasdair Monk, Alice Alexandra Moore ](/blog/iterating-from-design-to-deploy) [Show more posts](/blog/category/community/page/2)