# Cross-link map: How requests flow through Vercel (/docs/fundamentals/infrastructure)

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## Semantically closest pages

- [How Vercel CDN Works](https://vercel.com/docs/how-vercel-cdn-works) — Learn how Vercel's CDN processes requests through routing, caching, and compute layers to deliver your content with low
- [Life of a Vercel request: What happens when a user presses enter](https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happens-when-a-user-presses-enter)
- [Behind the scenes of Vercel's infrastructure: Achieving optimal scalability and performance](https://vercel.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-vercels-infrastructure)
- [How Vercel builds your application](https://vercel.com/docs/fundamentals/builds) — Learn how Vercel transforms your source code into optimized assets ready to serve globally.
- [Life of a Vercel request: Application-aware routing](https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-request-application-aware-routing)

## This page links to (22)

- [Build Output API](https://vercel.com/docs/build-output-api) — The Build Output API is a file-system-based specification for a directory structure that can produce a Vercel deployment
- [Builds](https://vercel.com/docs/builds) — Understand how the build step works when creating a Vercel Deployment.
- [Cache-Control headers](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cache-control-headers) — Learn about the cache-control headers sent to each Vercel deployment and how to use them to control the caching behavior
- [Vercel CDN Cache](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cdn-cache) — Learn how Vercel's CDN cache stores your content across a global network to reduce latency and origin load.
- [Fluid compute](https://vercel.com/docs/fluid-compute) — Learn about fluid compute, an execution model for Vercel Functions that provides a more flexible and efficient way to ru
- [Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions) — Build API routes, webhooks, and agent request handlers with Vercel Functions, then test and debug them with Vercel CLI.
- [What is Compute?](https://vercel.com/docs/fundamentals/what-is-compute) — Learn how compute works on Vercel with Fluid compute, and how it compares to traditional server and serverless models.
- [Incremental Static Regeneration \\(ISR\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/incremental-static-regeneration) — ISR serves cached static pages while regenerating content in the background. Vercel\\\\
- [Global network and regions](https://vercel.com/docs/regions) — View the list of regions supported by Vercel's CDN and learn about our global infrastructure.
- [Routing Middleware](https://vercel.com/docs/routing-middleware) — Learn how you can use Routing Middleware, code that executes before a request is processed on a site, to provide speed a
- [Redirects](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/redirects) — Learn how to use redirects on Vercel to instruct Vercel's platform to redirect incoming requests to a new URL.
- [Rewrites on Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/rewrites) — Learn how to use rewrites to send users to different URLs without modifying the visible URL.
- [Vercel Firewall](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall) — Learn how Vercel Firewall helps protect your applications and websites from malicious attacks and unauthorized access.
- [DDoS Mitigation](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/ddos-mitigation) — Learn how the Vercel Firewall mitigates against DoS and DDoS attacks
- [Vercel WAF](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/vercel-waf) — Learn how to secure your website with the Vercel Web Application Firewall \\(WAF\\)
- [Behind the scenes of Vercel's infrastructure: Achieving optimal scalability and performance](https://vercel.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-vercels-infrastructure)
- [Effortless high availability for dynamic frontends](https://vercel.com/blog/effortless-high-availability-for-dynamic-frontends)
- [Life of a Vercel request: Application-aware routing](https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-request-application-aware-routing)
- [Life of a Vercel request: Navigating the Edge Network](https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-navigating-the-edge-network)
- [Life of a Vercel request: What happens when a user presses enter](https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happens-when-a-user-presses-enter)
- [Protectd: Evolving Vercel’s always-on denial-of-service mitigations](https://vercel.com/blog/protectd-evolving-vercels-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations)
- [Self-driving infrastructure](https://vercel.com/blog/self-driving-infrastructure)

## Pages that link here (2)

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- [Vercel fundamental concepts](https://vercel.com/docs/fundamentals) — Learn about the core concepts of Vercel
- [How Vercel builds your application](https://vercel.com/docs/fundamentals/builds) — Learn how Vercel transforms your source code into optimized assets ready to serve globally.