Engineering Insights

Introducing Trace Drains on the Vercel Marketplace

You can now use to send traces and logs from your projects to your preferred Marketplace observability providers with native integrations, including , , , and with more providers coming soon.Vercel DrainsBraintrustDash0StatsigKubiks This integration allows developers to stream traces and evaluation data from Vercel directly into these providers for observability, debugging, and performance monitoring. The Trace Drain API extends Vercel’s observability surface to the Marketplace ecosystem, allo

Just another (Black) Friday

For teams on Vercel, Black Friday is just another Friday. The scale changes, but your storefronts and apps stay fast, reliable, and ready for spikes in traffic. Many of the optimizations required for peak traffic are already built into the platform. Rendering happens at the edge, caching works automatically, and protection layers are on by default. What’s left for teams is refinement: confirming observability is set up, tightening security rules, and reviewing the dashboards that matter most. La

Talha Tariq joins Vercel as CTO of Security

As AI reshapes how software is built and deployed, the surface area for attacks is growing rapidly. Developers are shipping faster than ever, and we’re seeing new code paths, new threat models, and new vulnerabilities. That’s why I’m excited to share that Talha Tariq is joining Vercel as our CTO of Security. Talha brings deep expertise in security at scale, having served as CISO & CIO at HashiCorp for seven years before becoming CTO (Security) at IBM following its acquisition. There, he oversaw

Running Next.js inside ChatGPT: A deep dive into native app integration

When OpenAI announced the Apps SDK with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, it opened the door to embedding web applications directly into ChatGPT. But there's a significant difference between serving static HTML in an iframe and running a full Next.js application with client-side navigation, React Server Components, and dynamic routing. This is the story of how we bridged that gap. We created a Next.js app that runs natively inside ChatGPT's triple-iframe architecture, complete with navigatio

Agents at work, a partnership with Salesforce and Slack

Every generation of software moves interfaces closer to where people think and work. Terminals gave way to GUIs. GUIs gave way to browsers. And now, the interface is language itself. Conversation has become the most natural way to build, explore, and decide. At the center of this shift is a new pattern: the AI agent. Today, software doesn’t have to wait for clicks or configuration, but understands user intent, reason about it, and takes action. The question for enterprises isn’t they’ll adopt a

Plex Coffee delivers fast, personal service with ChatGPT

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Anomaly alerts now in public beta

Teams using can now receive alerts when anomalies are detected in their applications to help quickly identify, investigate and resolve unexpected behavior.Observability Plus Alerts help monitor your app in real-time by surfacing unexpected changes in usage or error patterns: View alerts directly in your dashboard, or subscribe via email, Slack or webhooks to get notified wherever your team works., Alerts are available public beta for Pro and Enterprise customers with Observability Plus. or lea