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For Read.cv, showing is better than telling. The professional networking platform helps users add a more personal touch to the typical work profile—all made possible with Vercel and .Edge Functions Read more
, a blogging platform for the developer community built using Next.js, was born from the fundamental idea that developers should own the content they publish. A key component of that ownership is publishing articles on a custom domain—a feature the Hashnode team spent hours monitoring and maintaining themselves. That’s when they turned to Vercel. Hashnode Read more
Swell, a platform on Vercel, enables anyone to spin up their own ecommerce website using its headless, API-first backend. For them, Vercel and Next.js provide both the flexibility and accessibility they need to power their users’ storefronts around the world. The benefits are twofold: not only do Vercel and Next.js provide game-changing tools and features for the Swell team, but they ensure Swell’s merchants can create the fastest sites and the best shopping experiences for their customers. Rea
Today, we've announced a strategic partnership with Sitecore, a leading Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Content Hub, to deliver an end-to-end composable solution for building and deploying dynamic web experiences. Combining customer data and AI to deliver personalized experiences and offering a powerful CMS to create and manage content across channels and devices, Sitecore is an ideal solution for today’s connected, omnichannel digital experience. Read more
Support at PlanetScale The Support team at PlanetScale is a multi-cultural, multi-national team distributed around the globe, enabling us to support our users in almost any time zone on this planet. Internally, we are organized into two separate groups: Our Customer Engineering team working closely with our Enterprise customers and our Cloud Support team supporting our Base plan customers. All of us have a technical background. Some of us develop software and contribute to FOSS software or have
The Turbopack team and I were excited to and we've been even more energized by the progress we've made since then.announce Turbopack's alpha release at Next.js Conf Last month, I had the opportunity to take the stage at React Day Berlin to share more about the future plans for Turbopack. Read more
OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on more than a year of research. This report outlines the threats that lan
We recently had a performance issue in our Rails application where we had several N+1 .exists? queries on a single API endpoint. In the following query, we check to see if the "data_imports" feature is enabled for a user:user.beta_feature.where(name: "data_imports").enabled.exists? Output:BetaFeature Exists? (0.6ms) SELECT 1 AS one FROM `beta_feature` WHERE `beta_feature`.`name` = 'data_imports' AND `beta_feature`.`target_type` = 'User' AND `beta_feature`.`target_id` = 1 AND `beta_feature`.`en
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