Engineering Insights

Introducing IDEFICS: An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model

Developing at the speed of sound: How Sonos amplified their DevEx

As the world’s leading sound experience company with a 20-year legacy of innovation and over 3,000 patents, understands the importance of a robust digital presence that reflects the brand’s cutting-edge ethos. Sonos However, for years, the high costs and slow builds of their web infrastructure hindered developers from making critical site updates. The solution: a transition to a headless, composable architecture using Vercel and Next.js. The switch resulted in a remarkable 75% improvement in bu

The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million customers with incorrect balances, many of whom were unable to meet payments.  After investigation, the regulator found that Swedbank had not followed their change management process and issued a SEK850M (~85M USD) fine.

OpenAI acquires Global Illumination

The entire team has joined OpenAI.

Konabos empowers an industry giant to deploy 50% faster with a composable stack

When realized their team’s productivity was being interrupted by inefficient collaboration, they turned to the full-service digital agency Konabos for help. supported American Bath Group in moving away from their monolithic setup—the cause of their lagging dev velocity—in favor of a composable stack comprised of Vercel, Next.js, and Kontent.AI. Now with Vercel’s streamlined deployments and infrastructure, American Bath Group can deploy 50% faster, shorten review cycles, and enjoy a better deve

Introducing IP restrictions

Starting today, you can add an extra layer of security in connecting to your database by defining which IP addresses can connect to each database branch. Giving your organization the tools you need to operate your databases securely is a top priority, and IP restrictions, launching today in beta, are one additional way to provide an extra layer of security. While PlanetScale passwords have limited access by default, with each password valid for a single specific branch, some organizations may pr

Using GPT-4 for content moderation

We use GPT-4 for content policy development and content moderation decisions, enabling more consistent labeling, a faster feedback loop for policy refinement, and less involvement from human moderators.

Hydrogen 2 projects can now be deployed with zero configuration

Vercel now supports and automatically optimizes your  as of Vercel CLI . When importing a new project, it will detect Hydrogen and configure the right settings for optimal performance — including using  for server-rendering pages.Hydrogen 2 projectsVercel Edge Functionsv31.2.3 Deploy the  or run command in your terminal to get started.Hydrogen templatevercel init hydrogen-2 Read more