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Improving INP with React 18 and Suspense

Updated January 18, 2024. measures your site’s responsiveness to user interactions on the page. The faster your page responds to user input, the better.Interaction to Next Paint (INP) On March 12, 2024, INP will as the third .officially replace First Input Delay (FID)Core Web Vital This post will help you understand why INP is a better way to measure responsiveness than FID and how React and Next.js can improve INP. You'll be prepared for updates to Core Web Vitals, which impact , as INP moves

Prisma Support for Tracing and Metrics Is Now in Preview

We are excited to launch two new features in Preview: Tracing and Metrics. Try them out and let us know what you think!

Database DevOps

One of the earliest realizations we made at PlanetScale is that the world of databases had been practically untouched by DevOps practices. The benefits of DevOps are numerous, including faster product delivery and continuous integration, so why wouldn’t we want this for our database? When you see a description of DevOps, it is usually accompanied by the cycle shown in the above graphic. However, it mostly only applies to stateless workloads. Building out a DevOps toolchain allows you to write c

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

Spin Cycle: Shopify’s SFN Team Overcomes a Cloud-Development Spiral

Hashnode runs the fastest blogs on the web with Vercel

, 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

Enhanced geolocation information for Vercel Functions

Requests received by Serverless and Edge Functions are now enriched with headers containing information about the timezone of the visitor: As an example, a request from Tokyo is now enriched with the following headers: This header is now automatically activated for all new and existing Vercel Functions for all plans — no code or configuration change needed. Check out as well.the documentation Read more

What's new in Prisma? (Q2/22)

Learn about everything that has happened in the Prisma ecosystem and community from April to July 2022.