Engineering Insights

The developer experience of the Frontend Cloud

In a large team, creating new code should never be scary. Finding where to place code shouldn't be difficult. And new code certainly shouldn't break anything.deploying Ideally, your codebase feels transparent: easy to create, adjust, and monitor. The Frontend Cloud offers a complete , so you don't have to spend so much developer time curating and maintaining systems that can be easily automated.Developer Experience (DX) Platform Instead, you get centrally-located and collaborative tooling—Git-b

AWS re:Invent 2023: Iteration velocity is the solution to all software problems

Recently the Vercel Team had the pleasure of sponsoring AWS re:Invent 2023. This year we attended as an official part of the AWS Marketplace, which makes it possible to onboard and build on Vercel in just a few clicks. While at re:Invent, I was able to share my thoughts on The Frontend Cloud, Generative UI, and the keys to a highly iterative team. Here’s a look at my talk. The current state of web development requires a focus on the frontend—because the frontend is where you differentiate from y

Speculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference

Node.js 21.5.0 (Current)

Introducing the schemadiff command line tool

One of the core benefits of PlanetScale database clusters is the workflow enabling zero downtime schema migrations, which are made possible by database branching. A branch in PlanetScale is technically its own independent MySQL cluster. Deploy requests are used to apply the schema changes from one branch to another. As part of this workflow, we heavily utilize the schemadiff command provided by Vitess to calculate the schema differences between branches, determine the order of changes (including

2023, year of open LLMs

Vue 2 is Approaching End Of Life

With 2024 almost upon us, we would like to take this opportunity to remind the Vue community that Vue 2 will reach End of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2023. Vue 2.0 was released more than 7 years ago in 2016. It was a major milestone in Vue's journey of becoming a mainstream framework. Many current Vue users started using Vue during the Vue 2 era, and many great things have been built with it. However, active maintenance of two major versions in parallel isn't sustainable for us. As Vue 3 and it

Increasing accuracy of pediatric visit notes

Summer Health reimagines pediatric doctor’s visits with OpenAI.