Engineering Insights

What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated to offend no one yet still sounds comprehensive and deep. Unimpressed. The answers are a mile wide and an inch deep. There's not a lot of insight.

OpenSSL 3.0.7 update assessment

Building a powerful notification system for Vercel with Knock

One of the main benefits of building with Next.js is the ease of leveraging APIs and components to integrate with best-of-breed, backend technology.quickly Today released our as a public beta, made possible with the help of our integration partner , their powerful API, and robust component library. new notification systemKnock This post will cover how we chose and implemented Knock for our notification center, and how you can use Knock to build notifications into your own application. Read mo

Point-E: A system for generating 3D point clouds from complex prompts

What is a query planner?

Anyone that has worked with large databases can testify how slow queries can get. This is often due to the necessary indexes not being there, or something in the query that stops the database system from using the index. Choosing the right indexes to use, and the right order to fetch data in, proves to be the difference between a 10ms and 5s query. Choosing the indexes and join order is called query planning. The output of this process is a query plan that tells the database system how to answer

Edge Functions are now generally available

This changelog entry is historical. Edge Functions are deprecated for new projects. Use with the Node.js runtime and . Use for request-time routing before a response completes.Note:Vercel FunctionsFluid computeRouting Middleware During the private beta, we’ve made Edge Functions , more , and  with Node.js:fasterflexiblemore compatible   cache-control   standard   for function responses   region preference   WebAssembly workloads   for Enterprise and Pro teams We’re excited to announce that be

Introducing Edge Config: Globally distributed, instant configuration

Last month we announced the limited availability of , an ultra-low latency data store for near-instant reads of configuration data. Vercel Edge Config Edge Config is now generally available, alongside integrations with and for A/B testing and Feature Flags.StatsigHappyKit Read more

Vercel Edge Functions are now generally available

Access to fast, global compute can give developers more flexibility to build rich experiences, regardless of their users' physical location or network speed. Vercel's Edge Functions aim to bring this capability into every developer's toolkit for building on the Web. This past summer, alongside our GA of Edge Middleware, we released Edge Functions to Public Beta. During our beta period, our Edge Network has seen over 30 Edge Function invocations.billion Since launching, we’ve made Edge Function