2 posts tagged with "infrastructure"

A CDN feels like magic: your site suddenly loads fast everywhere. But it's really just a handful of well-understood parts working together. Let's take them one at a time.

You write next build, run vercel deploy, and a URL comes back. But between that command and the response your users get, there's a whole distributed system — build pipelines, an edge network, serverless and edge functions, caches at multiple layers. This post opens the box and walks through what Vercel actually does with a Next.js app.