Engineering Insights

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Engineering a site at the speed of breaking news

Many Vercel and Next.js users deal with large swaths of data. But few wrangle data in the way The Washington Post Elections Engineering team does. Knowing their platform must be fast and visually compelling—all while handling constant updates from thousands of federal, state, and local elections—The Post moved to Next.js and Vercel for the 2022 US midterm elections. Read more

Improved performance for Vercel Postgres from Edge Functions

The has significantly improved performance for Postgres queries from Vercel Edge Functions.Vercel Postgres SDK The package has been updated to use the latest version of Neon’s Serverless driver which adds support for SQL-over-HTTP when you use the . Simple queries that do not require transactions now complete in —up to .@vercel/postgres template literal tagsql~10msa 40% speed increase You do not need to make any changes to your queries to see these improvements, you only need to update to to

Stable Diffusion XL on Mac with Advanced Core ML Quantization

How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity

You and your team have worked tirelessly on finding and hiring the best software engineers around, but are they as productive as they want to be? More and more organizations are focusing on how to improve developer productivity, and we believe it starts with your database. This guide will walk through what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity — and ergo, innovation — for your organization. What slows developers down? You can hire the

Frontier Model Forum

We’re forming a new industry body to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems: advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices and standards, and facilitating information sharing among policymakers and industry.

Introducing React Tweet

Introducing – embed tweets into any React application with a single line of code, without sacrificing performance.react-tweet Read more

How Vercel helped this popular health database increase free trials by 284%

is the Web’s largest database of nutrition and supplement research—empowering their users with scientific data to inform healthier lives. Examine Prior to adopting Vercel’s Frontend Cloud, their five-person dev team was struggling with a pile of tech debt, brought on by their monolithic architecture setup. Read more